Those sneaky Fijians, they're ones to watch out for I tell you.

It looks like Canada has more problems closer to home, with every one wanting a bit of their territory

Originally Posted by LeEnfield

It looks like Canada has more problems closer to home, with every one wanting a bit of their territory

Namely? The Inuit people in the Nunavut Territory?

The Inuit are a part of Canada... they dont want a part of Canada... they ARE a part of Canada. (Same with the French, the aboriginals, ets.)

Originally Posted by DefiantCdr

The Inuit are a part of Canada... they dont want a part of Canada... they ARE a part of Canada. (Same with the French, the aboriginals, ets.)

I'm perfectly aware of that, I was just kidding, since I couldn't figure out what LeEnfield was referring to.

Originally Posted by CanadianCombat

The new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper might send Canadian troops to Iraq. Do you think this is a good idea?

Dear Member,

No it would be a bad idea. Not because the US invasion in 2003 was right or wrong, but because the Canadian people do not wish to be involved militarily in Iraq. It is a lot like WW2 in 1940. President Roosevelt knew the right thing to do was for the US to declare war on Germany after the collapse of France (ie France stated it would stay in the war and form a government of exile and keep fighting). But there was no way that the American people would have supported going to war even if FDR could have gotten the votes.

A Vietnam War hero and US Senator, John McCain stated it about best: "It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to perserve through god awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn't support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us play." (Senator John McCain writing about Vietnam in the forward to David Hallberstam's book `The Best and the Brightest')

Finally, Canada is doing more than its share in Afghanistan, even standing up to other NATO members [eg France and Germany]who only want to pull guard duty and not in a phrase "patrol outside the wire."

Jack E. Hammond

I agree with Jack Hammond

Canada is doing a lot in Afghanistan but there is abosultely nothing you can hear about that in the Canadian society

It is like that Canadian people are unwilling to hear about their men and women in uniform serving in distant lands of Afghanistan

It is unfortunate.

However I've to note that Canada will lead NATO forces from March 2006 and US troops will pull out from Afghanistan little by little

I think that it is pretty funny that some people here think that Canada doesn't do much for the world. Did you now that ratio wise, prior to 9/11 Canada had more of its military overseas on deployment then the US did. We were also in Command of ISAF and now we have taken over comand of the most dangerous part of Afghanistan. Now you guys might think that it has nothing on Iraq,but ask your GunDevil how it is over here. I admit I was all ready to go on the invasion, we were supposed to be attached to the 20th UK armored division or something like that to take Basra, and I was dissapointed because I am a soldier being left out of a war. But there would be no sense to go there now, even though the situation there is kind of our specialty. We commited to not going and I think we should stick to our guns. But I will not tolerate kids on this website saying "uh, yeah I think that Canada should play a larger role in international matters" Ask the former Yugoslavia, ask Haiti, ask Sinai, ask Golan, ask Sierra Leone,ask East Timor, ask Afghanistan to mention a few. That is all

Originally Posted by Pete031

I think that it is pretty funny that some people here think that Canada doesn't do much for the world. Did you now that ratio wise, prior to 9/11 Canada had more of its military overseas on deployment then the US did. We were also in Command of ISAF and now we have taken over comand of the most dangerous part of Afghanistan. Now you guys might think that it has nothing on Iraq,but ask your GunDevil how it is over here. I admit I was all ready to go on the invasion, we were supposed to be attached to the 20th UK armored division or something like that to take Basra, and I was dissapointed because I am a soldier being left out of a war. But there would be no sense to go there now, even though the situation there is kind of our specialty. We commited to not going and I think we should stick to our guns. But I will not tolerate kids on this website saying "uh, yeah I think that Canada should play a larger role in international matters" Ask the former Yugoslavia, ask Haiti, ask Sinai, ask Golan, ask Sierra Leone,ask East Timor, ask Afghanistan to mention a few. That is all

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There are all sorts of opinions... I have just shared mine. I have been on 3 operational delpoyments in the past 3 years. If we did nothing in the international community maybe I would have spent more time at home with loved ones instead of wading through garbage on some patrol in soe third world hole.
I think that people are to easy to lay blame on Canada. Just because we didn't support the US on this doesn't make us any different then what we were 10 years ago.