American liberal*vision CNN points out that the terrorist blast in Egypt yesterday could easily have killed Canadian troops who are there (with guns that allow troops to shoot and kill bad guys) as part of the U.S.-financed peacekeeping contingent, and who work alongside and under the leadership of the American peacekeepers.
Lost in all of this smug Canadian liberal media-led anti-Americanism and anti-Bushism and terrorist appeasement is the fact that Americans not only fight for peace and world security (in Iraq—yes for peace in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, and in many other places), they also pay for it with lives and cash and equipment and political capital.
And lost is the fact that any peacekeeping mission can by its very nature turn into a violent terrorist-ridden abyss, even after 27 years (no, not months) of not cutting and running. And lost is the fact that eventually, with perseverance and determination and a great national resolve, peace does in fact prevail, as it did in this case until the terrorist bombing yesterday.
Liberals would have Canadians cut and run from there too, now, if I understand them correctly.
And lost is the fact that over 100 Canadians troops have been killed in just such peacekeeping missions the world over in the last few decades, none or few of whom was honored by any flag-lowering at Canada’s Parliament Buildings, nor any great media fanfare.
Blast outside peacekeeping base in Egypt
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; Posted: 7:06 a.m. EDT (11:06 GMT)
[Associated Press]CAIRO, Egypt (AP)—Two suicide bombers on foot struck just outside a multinational peacekeeping forces base just south of the Rafa border crossing to Gaza on Wednesday.
At least one New Zealander and one Norwegian attached to the multinational force as well as two Egyptian policemen were wounded, security officials and Egypt’s official news agency reported.
The attackers hit just two days after a triple bombing that killed 24 at Egypt’s Sinai resort city of Dahah on the Gulf of Aqaba.
A spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers in Cairo refused to immediately comment on the blast.
The force’s biggest contingent is U.S. soldiers, according to the group’s web site—although it also has sizeable Canadian contingent.
The peacekeeping force was set up as part of the 1979 peace treaty between Israel that led to Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai. It is partially paid for by the U.S. and has U.S. advisers and soldiers attached to it—in addition to soldiers from several other nations, including Canada.
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