Here at Dr. Curmudgeon & Company, we think a lot of David Warren, Canadian writer, savant, and columnist for the Ottawa Citizen Now he goes and writes a bellicose, chest-thumping militaristic Canadianesque column about what a fine damn bunch of soldiers the Canadians have in Afghanistan:
I am so damn proud of our Canadian guys, in Afghanistan. They have taken over a dangerous mission, and they are up to it. Our Kandahar detachment does not consist of “peacekeepers”. A person must have his brains scrambled for breakfast to think it does. For the peace is being imposed. Our guys are not “honest, impartial middlemen” between the Taliban savages and the elected government of Afghanistan. We are there to serve the latter by eliminating the former. It is a kill or be killed proposition. We are there to protect the common people; and therefore to kill the common enemy.
Well, yarr and hoo-ha to that, or whatever the Princess Pat's say (that would be Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Regiment; no jokes, please, their snipers have now set records for distance, if you see what I mean). If you're going to be accused of being a chickenhawk or armchair generalist, then you might as well fire the entire battery, hi-explosive shells, time on target.
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