Canada Ping!
Posted on 10/25/2014 7:20:00 AM PDT by Dartman
Some will argue the two ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks on our country this week demonstrate why Canada should have refused to join the 60-nation coalition to defeat it.
In fact, these assaults on our democracy in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, south of Montreal, demonstrate why we had to act.
There are times in a nation’s life when it’s important to be on the right side of history -- even knowing that doing so will cost it blood and treasure.
This is one of those times, and in two World Wars, the Korean War, in peacekeeping and in Afghanistan, Canada has always answered that call, as we are answering it now.
There are those will say Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, 24, and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, 53 would be alive today, and that Canadians would be safer, had the government of Stephen Harper kept Canada out of the coalition against ISIS.
In that case, so the logic goes, an ISIS leader would not have included Canada in the list of countries it urged its followers to attack, and two homegrown Canadian terrorists would not have heeded that call in assaults that reached into the heart of our democracy on Parliament Hill.
That logic is flawed because it assumes ISIS -- an army of fanatical Islamist terrorists -- only attacks military targets, when in reality it beheads humanitarian workers, forces women into slavery and tortures children.
By its own actions, ISIS demonstrates it cannot be reasoned with; that it does not behave rationally; that it does not make distinctions of “guilt” and “innocence” among those it considers infidels.
ISIS’ creed is that all who do not bow before its medieval theology -- including Muslims -- must be destroyed.
Throughout our history, Canadians have never bowed to tyranny.
Throughout our history, there have been soldiers like Nathan Cirillo and Patrice Vincent, willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep us, and people they do not know half a world away, safe.
People like Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, the hero of Wednesday’s attack on Parliament, who was back on the job Thursday in the House of Commons.
They are the reason Canada will remain strong, free and ready to battle evil in our own country, and anywhere in the world.
The crocodile will eat me last ...
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Canada Ping!
Parts of Canada look like Algiers, so this is just fancy talk. At the rate things are going, all of Canada will eventually look like Algiers. With a few suburbs of Punjab and Communist China.
I think that sums it up very well.Canada's a small country (population-wise) so she can't be expected to send thousands of jets or tens of thousands of soldiers but,IMO,she has a duty (as do the US,Britain,Australia and others) to continue to play a positive role.
Both my neighbors are snow birds from Toronto and the complain about the muzzie scum slithering into their country.
Thank you very much for “getting it”. Much appreciated.
Here’s a link to some photos of our “Highway of Heroes”.http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=highway+of+heroes&qpvt=highway+of+heroes&FORM=IGRE
Many here might be surprised to know that the 401 is the busiest highway in North America. I know, I know, all about the California freeways, but this thing is busier.
People in glass houses ...
I think the large majority of *thinking* Americans "get it" when it comes to the Western Alliance,in general,and Canada,in particular.In 1961 JFK (the last prominent Democrat for whom I have any respect) put it quite well when,in a speech to a joint session of your Parliament,said"
"Geography has made us neighbors.History has made us friends.Economics has made us partners.And necessity has made us allies.Those whom nature hath so joined together,let no man put asunder"
And as for your Highway 401,I driven it...during evening rush...in a snowstorm.Good thing I had plenty of gas! ;-) But I've never seen one of your funeral processions.I can imagine getting the same feeling up my spine seeing one that I got during my visit to our Tomb of the Unknown at Arlington National Cemetery.
JFK wouldn’t recognize the Democrat Party of today.
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