In a short couple of years it has become all but impossible for the world media to do anything but praise and respect Canada. This is quite a change. As is so often the case though, apparently it still takes outsiders to look in at Canada and find its stars, and its stand-out qualities.
It’s a good little article in the Wall Street Journal this morning (including that stylin’ graphic of the Prime Minister!), highlighting our Prime Minister’s call—and warning—to the world, particularly the Euro-liberal NATO nations, which the editorial describes as “allies” complete with the CBC-esque “so-called” prefixed to the word “allies”. (In this case it’s a proper use of that tendentious device. The CBC puts it in front of “the war on terror”, which is hideous, agenda-driving politics.)
They include a few quotes and basically back him up and make an attempt to help him in his mission to wake up the world (even if Canadians are still sound asleep—or high on pot—and don’t have the information nor even the inclination to support the mission on a broad, unequivocal scale (a folly which I attribute to Canadian liberal-left politicians like Dion and Layton and Duceppe, their huge subservient media complex including the state-owned liberal-left CBC division; and their academia division).
We feel Stephen Harper’s pique. Maybe France, Germany and other so-called NATO allies will as well and heed the Canadian Prime Minister’s call to share the war-fighting burden in Afghanistan.
Miracles happen. For the time being, however, the Continentals are in no apparent hurry to break a five-decade habit of enjoying a free ride on security. None seriously answered NATO’s call for up to 7,000 more troops for Afghanistan. So the U.S. last month announced a “temporary” deployment of another 3,200 Marines, the second large reinforcement in a year. That brings the U.S. deployment to nearly 30,000, with about half those troops as part of the NATO force of 42,000.
The plight of the Canadians ought to shame other allies.
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The Continentals fill up lots of air space at policy conferences talking about Europe’s readiness to play a prominent role in global affairs. The Canadians are now usefully calling their bluff.
The article does include this one line which raised my eyebrows:
“If NATO can’t come through with that help, then I think, frankly, NATO’s own reputation and future will be in jeopardy,” he said this week. Canadians aren’t known for hyperbole.
Maybe most Canadians aren’t known for hyperbole, but the Liberals and Liberal Frenchman Stephane Dion are; as are the you’ve got to be kidding party’s Jack Layton and his little leftist minions. It was a Liberal who called the President of the United States a “moron”, and liberals and leftists who constantly bemoan America, the war on terror, and who slander anything not in keeping with their provincial world view, all day long.
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Germans reject U.S. troops request – showing how Prime Minister Harper’s call to president Bush earlier this week is already paying off and the U.S. is stepping up and doing what the Prime Minister asked of them.
Hey liberals: Does that make Bush a “toady” of Harper? Is Bush now a Harper “lap dog”? Is Bush Harper’s “poodle”? Are the Americans doing Harper’s “bidding”? Is Bush doing Harper’s “dirty work”? Is Bush a “Harper ‘neo-con’”?
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