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Canada First Defence Policy puts Canadians Last
By Gary Morton, August 2008
If you go to the Canadian Defence Department web site the first
item that hits you is a recruiting ad. The problem with that is given current
military policy no thinking person would want to join.
Canadians in their hearts and
minds are still peacekeepers, spiritually living in the old days when
Trenton
was a sleepy town with a lovely bay. In those days our troops flew off to
Egypt
and elsewhere to walk a line in the sand and prevent war.
We no longer do that. Our soldiers are now warriors, wheeling across the
bombed opium fields of
Afghanistan.
They are not there because Canadians want to be there, and they are not there
because
Afghanistan
presents any military threat to
Canada.
We are there because federal political parties and the
United States
want us to be there.
So much for sovereignty or the will of the people, it doesn’t exist when
it comes to Canadian military policy. Perhaps the key to our defence policy is
that it is a pure lie that doesn’t in any way do what it claims to do. The
Harper government (it could just as easily be the Liberals) outline a defence
policy that they say “… puts forward clear roles and missions for the Canadian
Forces … The Canada First Defence Strategy is based on an extensive and rigorous
analysis of the risks and threats facing Canada.”
If that is the case why
are we in
Afghanistan?
And why is Defence Minister Peter McKay making strong statements against
Russia
over
Georgia?
Afghanistan
poses no threat to
Canada.
It is an ungovernable nation where millions of Muslims living in remote areas
will never receive any more education than they now get at the local mosque. And
by education from a military perspective, I mean the ability to receive,
understand and believe Western propaganda. If the war there has proved anything,
it is that we in the West can’t dominate a nation unless they willingly believe
our lies.
For a couple years now we’ve been admitting there is no military solution
there … yet the answer has been to continue to push for one with more bombing
and combat. In the near future we will have either McCain or Obama at the helm
in the US,
pressing for that great day of victory, where we have achieved peace in
Afghanistan
by having one armed soldier present to protect or war with every civilian and
insurgent.
A bigger problem is that the world has changed, but our leaders still
think it is yesterday. Take a look at the current Russia/Georgia conflict. If it
poses a threat to us it is because Peter McKay and the Harper gang want to push
the nuclear clock closer to midnight
by echoing Bush and most of the West in one sided attacks on
Russia.
Instead of putting
Canada
first we are pushing a button to restart the Cold War first.
Though the US is now a failing empire, a bloated NATO is sucking in every
nation in sight and putting tentacles around Russia that threaten to hasten
world war. Imagine the madness of the Polish government. In agreeing to base
part of the
US
missile defence there, they have also agreed that in the opening of any
conflict,
Poland
will simply be annihilated. Nothing but radioactive dust will remain of
Poland.
To further anger
Russia
the US
has conducted large scale military games near their territory. Think about what
the US
would do if the Russians were putting up a missile defence shield in
Cuba and conducting war games off the
US
coast.
The
Georgia
thing is no different. By siding with Georgia Peter McKay is lending a Canadian
endorsement to war crimes. The Georgians under the leadership of Mr.
Saakashvilli and aided by American and Israeli advisers attacked Tskhinvali.
There are no military installations in that town, but there were Russian
peacekeepers who found themselves suddenly being shot by their Georgian
counterparts. The attack continued with multiple rocket launchers destroying
everything in sight. Georgians snipers came in shooting everything that moved.
The hospital was attacked, people hiding in a church basement were killed … and
it continued on from there as an obvious war crime. By the time it was over
thousands were dead.
Of course little of this is noted in Western media. Here Saakashvilli is
praised as a democrat, without mention of the fact that he runs
Georgia as a police state. Politicians and pundits call for
Russia
to get out and return South
Ossetia to the Georgians.
None of them mention that in 2006, 99% of
South Ossetians
voted for independence from
Georgia.
It is also not mentioned that his brave Georgian soldiers simply threw down
their guns and ran when the Russians came in. Apparently some of their weapons
are now for sale in the area by surviving residents.
We went from the rattle of machineguns to the endless prattle of Western
leaders as they make demands on the Russians. If Putin isn’t listening it is
because he knows he doesn’t have to … what he has to do is wait until Western
leaders like Harper/McKay wake up and realize that it isn’t in their interest to
push a resurgent Russia to the brink.
If they want to put forward a
Canada
first defence policy they need to be alerted to the real world. Realizing
Canadian aspirations for peace means asking why we are in
Afghanistan
and why we have become an echo chamber for foolish and dangerous American
military strategy.
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