Well said, if a little direct. Gives me a chance to hold forth on the Canadian Press. Scared stiff of insulting our Canadian troops, they keep sniping away at the Canadian Prime Minister. He said he would not have the troops in a shooting war, they wheedled.
The Canadians are in the position they were in the Serb/Croation conflict of 1993. They were peacekeepers. The Serbs were pictured as the evil ones by the press. This in both the USA and Canada. The Croats had wiped out two Serb villages. The Canadians were supposed to go through Ottawa to ask permission to defend the Serbs. The Commander of the Light Infantry Regiment took the initiative. Firefight at the Medak Pocket.
It was hushed up until 2002 when the medals were handed out. Saving the helpless Serbs was not on the news agenda in 1993.
Excuse the ramble. but much of the press does not approve of hard hitting military action. God Speed Canada, says I.
Specifically 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. That parade when they handed out medals sucked. Colonel Mike Day was good, but we had the governor general up there speaking and we could not stand her.
To be clear, we never were peacekeepers, that is just a media term that never applied to us.
2nd Battalion, 2nd to none! 2VP forever heh.