NATO & the NUTSO'S
13/09/07 09:59 AM
NATO & the
NUTSO’s
The top brass from the NATO member nations were meeting in Victoria BC last week. A nice place to visit, get away from the demonstrators in Brussels and, for something completely different, check out their Canadian counterparts waving signs and shouting insults around the Harbour in Victoria.
All of this is old hat by now, a bunch of folks with too much time on their hands and altogether no idea why/how they have the freedom to protest and how important that right is, band together, occasionally dress up in stupid costumes and show that they are “down with the struggle” of “poor, oppressed, people of colour/ethnicity/religion/status” everywhere. Throw in a few people wearing G. W. Bush or Donald Rumsfeld masks and you have yourself a party.
Ho, Hum, send in the clowns.
I don’t much mind these people unless they start destroying things or hurting other people to show that they are really, really, really, in favour of Peace. I do often wonder about their level of understanding of the issues that they purport to hold dear however and one sign in particular caught my eye which made me laugh/sigh/weep and mutter “suspicions confirmed” to no one in particular.
Sign said, “ Pull out of NATO now and preserve Canada’s reputation as Peacekeepers”.
I am pretty sure that this dimwit has no idea what NATO stands for, it’s history, and dead certain that they have zero clue as to how Canadian soldiers gained their reputation as Peacekeepers.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, founded in 1949 and now comprising 26 member countries not only were the thin green line that kept the “Commies” from taking over Europe during that long 40 years or so of the Cold War, they also kept belligerents apart in Cyprus, Bosnia, The Golan Heights, Egypt, Lebanon, Croatia and most recently Afghanistan.
The member nations are pledged under this treaty to treat an attack on any one country as an attack on all members and to respond when asked with whatever help is necessary. The events of 9/11 were deemed as just such an attack and Canada (with a lot of foot dragging from Mr. Chretien et al) responded by signing on to assist in eliminating the threat in Afghanistan posed by the Taliban government’s sponsorship of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
By taking part in this operation Canada is not only fulfilling it’s obligations to the NATO treaty but also maintaining it’s long and honorable tradition of Peacekeeping.
I can understand the problem with the language. Soldiers, trained to inflict death and destruction on the enemy of the day, have been saddled with the title “Peacekeepers” by soft spined politicos and soft headed editorialists who don’t really ever want to talk about all of that “icky” killing and dying stuff.
Safe at home, squishy “activists” like to think that soldiers are just kept around to fill sand bags during floods and put up tents after a natural disaster. To build schools for the little children and hospitals for the sick. So, when they see real blood and real caskets on the ground they get all panicky and decide that “somebody has to do something” so they make up signs, write catchy slogans and crash a NATO meeting in nice, safe, close to a Starbucks, Victoria.
Really useful, thanks for the message, we didn’t really even think that killing and dying was not a good way to spend a couple of summers overseas. Never occurred to us. We get it now, you can go home and pet your poodle and feel good about yourself now. The adults will finish up here soon and go back to Brussels, and Kandahar.
Twits!
30
The top brass from the NATO member nations were meeting in Victoria BC last week. A nice place to visit, get away from the demonstrators in Brussels and, for something completely different, check out their Canadian counterparts waving signs and shouting insults around the Harbour in Victoria.
All of this is old hat by now, a bunch of folks with too much time on their hands and altogether no idea why/how they have the freedom to protest and how important that right is, band together, occasionally dress up in stupid costumes and show that they are “down with the struggle” of “poor, oppressed, people of colour/ethnicity/religion/status” everywhere. Throw in a few people wearing G. W. Bush or Donald Rumsfeld masks and you have yourself a party.
Ho, Hum, send in the clowns.
I don’t much mind these people unless they start destroying things or hurting other people to show that they are really, really, really, in favour of Peace. I do often wonder about their level of understanding of the issues that they purport to hold dear however and one sign in particular caught my eye which made me laugh/sigh/weep and mutter “suspicions confirmed” to no one in particular.
Sign said, “ Pull out of NATO now and preserve Canada’s reputation as Peacekeepers”.
I am pretty sure that this dimwit has no idea what NATO stands for, it’s history, and dead certain that they have zero clue as to how Canadian soldiers gained their reputation as Peacekeepers.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, founded in 1949 and now comprising 26 member countries not only were the thin green line that kept the “Commies” from taking over Europe during that long 40 years or so of the Cold War, they also kept belligerents apart in Cyprus, Bosnia, The Golan Heights, Egypt, Lebanon, Croatia and most recently Afghanistan.
The member nations are pledged under this treaty to treat an attack on any one country as an attack on all members and to respond when asked with whatever help is necessary. The events of 9/11 were deemed as just such an attack and Canada (with a lot of foot dragging from Mr. Chretien et al) responded by signing on to assist in eliminating the threat in Afghanistan posed by the Taliban government’s sponsorship of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
By taking part in this operation Canada is not only fulfilling it’s obligations to the NATO treaty but also maintaining it’s long and honorable tradition of Peacekeeping.
I can understand the problem with the language. Soldiers, trained to inflict death and destruction on the enemy of the day, have been saddled with the title “Peacekeepers” by soft spined politicos and soft headed editorialists who don’t really ever want to talk about all of that “icky” killing and dying stuff.
Safe at home, squishy “activists” like to think that soldiers are just kept around to fill sand bags during floods and put up tents after a natural disaster. To build schools for the little children and hospitals for the sick. So, when they see real blood and real caskets on the ground they get all panicky and decide that “somebody has to do something” so they make up signs, write catchy slogans and crash a NATO meeting in nice, safe, close to a Starbucks, Victoria.
Really useful, thanks for the message, we didn’t really even think that killing and dying was not a good way to spend a couple of summers overseas. Never occurred to us. We get it now, you can go home and pet your poodle and feel good about yourself now. The adults will finish up here soon and go back to Brussels, and Kandahar.
Twits!
30
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