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- Victim of bureaucratic jealousy
Canada shows us a brilliant example of how bureaucratic turf wars on the homefront can negatively impact the war effort: Due to interdepartmental jealousies, the Department of National Defence has decided to disband the Strategic Advisory Team-Afghanistan. Since 2005 this unique Canadian Forces initiative — outside of the jurisdiction of ISAF or OEF — has [...]
- No militaries in the gay!
This is wrong on so many levels:
Hamilton’s gay pride festival says it banned the Canadian military this year because of alleged human rights violations around the world.
The decision has ignited a furious backlash within some in the gay community who claim that the military has changed since it overturned it discriminatory policies against homosexuality in [...]
- The democratic nominee debate in historical context
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Brilliant.
- Can we survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of life?
Readers would not often catch Lord Curzon perusing the pages of Mother Jones, a liberal-progressive commentary magazine. However, a recent article subtitled, “Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?” caught my eye like few other articles have so far in 2008. That question is, I believe, [...]
- Hate in the USA
The Southern Poverty Law Center says that hate groups in the US have surged to 888 in 2007, up from 602 in 2000.
See who and where they are. All hate groups profiled are race-based. Diversity Matters notes that much of the vitriol is directed at Latinos. I thought there would be more religion-based hate in [...]
- How the US military views itself
Foreign Policy magazine teamed up with the Center for a New American Security and conducted a survey to investigate how US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines perceive the state of their military.
Some of the findings mirror the general consensus in the media: Iraq is breaking the military; America is not particularly ready for a war [...]
- Bye bye B-2
A B-2 stealth bomber crashed just after take-off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. Luckily the two pilots ejected to safety, but that is more than a billion dollars down the drain and as David Axe points out, nearly 5 percent of the B-2 fleet). The US has 21 20 B-2s in total.
It makes [...]
- Kosovo : Serbia :: Quebec : Canada, how?
Ottawa remains silent on the recognition of Kosovo’s self-declared independence. Prime Minister Harper is in a tricky position here. Canada has its own minority that could unilaterally declare its independence. Official recognition of Kosovo could set a precedent for a future Quebec-separatist campaign. The international recognition that Kosovo has received has encouraged the separatist movement [...]
- Police Officer Dumps Quadriplegic From Wheelchair
Through experience with criminal elements and based on my political philisophy, I am generally a red-blooded pro-law enforcement citizen. But I also fully understand and appreciate the fact that American police culture is dispicable in the way it regularly interacts with ordinary citizens engaged in no criminal act, with reckless abandon of safety and [...]
- The Zimmermann Telegram Feasability Study
Most Americans know that it was the Zimmermann Telegram, sent by Germany to Mexico at the height of World War I, that brought US into the war in Europe. Frustrated with blatant US support of Britain, Germany solicited Mexico to invade the southern United States and offered aid and assistance. However, the telegram [...]
