Monday, May 26, 2008

Now, for Our Useful Idiot...

...Sean's statements. These are a virtual goldmine of idiocy:

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How exactly are we supposed to pull our weight? getting involved in illegal wars? choosing sides in civil wars? propping up a military industrial complex of our own so we can increase exports of WMDs?"

[snip]

"ya, international rules and conventions be damned, there's oil in them hills...oh wait it was because of WMDs, nope that's not it, it was because Saddam was bad, nope that's not it, it was because of freedom and democracy, oh wait...no that isn't it either...."

I will take them one by one, dealing with the simplest ones first:

How exactly are we supposed to pull our weight? We need to have a force adequately equipped and strong enough in numbers to fulfill our obligations under NATO and any other mutual defense treaty to which we are a party, that's how. For years, under successive Liberal governments, Canada's armed forces were starved of funding to the point where we were using equipment and vehicles that were so out of date and crumbling is was an international embarrassment. If I had my way, we would return to the stature we held in World War II, and in my opinion, the only political party capable of getting this right is the Conservatives. We need not only modern equipment and materials, but specially trained units capable of fighting today's warfare, which involves tactics suitable for dealing with terrorism and the kinds of threats terrorist groups are presenting. The Americans are way ahead of us in this regard.

...getting involved in illegal wars? The notion of a legal versus illegal war is a bonehead's straw man. Who is it that decides whether a war is legal or illegal? The United Nations? What nation in their right mind, being responsible for the safety and security of its own citizens, would surrender the right to declare war against an enemy to an organization over which it has very little, if any, control? The United Nations, after all, is the body that put Lybia's Muammar Gaddafi in charge of the Human Rights Portfolio and followed that act by putting Sudan in charge, while it carries out genocide in Darfur - two of the most sterling defenders of the human rights of their own population. This is the organization that brought us the Oil-for-Food scandal and "peacekeepers" raping women and children. The United Nations is a sick joke, and if Sean wants Canada, or anyone else in the free and democratic world, to surrender their sovereignty to this sort of organization, is it little wonder that the Party to which he owes allegiance is always near the bottom in every federal election. Even the Liberals had more sense than that.

..choosing sides in civil wars? If it's in our interests, yes. For example, if democratic forces in Afghanistan were at war with the Taliban, you better believe we should be backing the democratic forces. We know that Taliban Jack would not want to do that, but, again, that's why Taliban Jack and his little band of useful idiots will never be in power.

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propping up a military industrial complex of our own so we can increase exports of WMDs? I presume our young socialist trooper is referring to the oft repeated non-sense from the left which attempts to claim that the Americans sold Weapons of Mass Destruction to Saddam Hussein. This is a larger question, which I will deal with in another post, but the short answer for now is that materials that could be used to make WMD were sold to Iraq, but they could also be used for many other purposes. What Iraq did with them is another question.

...ya, international rules and conventions be damned, there's oil in them hills..
Again, the thing about international rules. I wonder what Sean would have said about Winston Churchill's decision to go to war against Germany. England hadn't been invaded, after all. And Canada, too. We weren't even any where close to being endangered by NAZI Germany. I suppose we shouldn't have gone to war in Sean's little fairy tale world.

But now we get to the meat of Sean's delusions. The "it's all about oil" meme. I'll save that, and the rest of the useful idiot's rote regurgitations, for future installments.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just remember - the prerequisite for changing someone's mind is that they have a mind in the first place.

Marxists are just so - 1960's, don't ya know.

May 27, 2008 10:06 am  

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