The United States has been the world’s worst warmonger for over two centuries. I guess they should have turned the other cheek to the Japs and also not responded to Hitler’s declaration of war. The world would certainly have been a better place. And, having actually bothered (at long last, delaying for good domestic political reasons) to get into the Second World War, the United States thereafter should have given Stalin and the Soviet Union free rein to try and wreak their will around the globe, starting with turning western Europe Communist one way or another. And let Kim-il Sung, with Stalin’s and Mao’s backing, conquer South Korea.
Hell, perhaps better yet not to have fought the Civil War and left the Confederate States of America a free, independent and slave state (though ending slavery was not the purpose of the war, either not fighting it or losing it would have left the peculiar institution fully in force).
I give you Gerald Caplan, a true soul of Canada’s New Democratic Party:
Canada enlists in America’s permanent war for peace
Why “Canada’s National Whatever” publishes such venom, if only online, is a very good question. By the way, the ideologically-blinded and ignorant Mr Caplan seems not to realize that the US Marines went “to the shores of Tripoli” after war was declared on the United States when it refused to continue paying tribute to buy off the Barbary Pirates.
What a bitter and small-minded fool. A true useful idiot. If the Marine Corps did not exist perhaps God would create them. My personal theology or something.
Update: What may really underlie Mr Caplan’s rant (and the views of many other Canadians):
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The leaked diplomatic cables, dating from January 2009 to June 2010, cover a huge range of issues and include ”lively commentaries” to Washington about a host of world leaders. A series of leaks is thought to deal with Canada’s ”inferiority complex”…
It’ll be fun city watching our greatest and goodest go ape-shit.
Mark
Ottawa
Funny how the Europeans used to go about slaughtering themselves in record numbers every 20 years or so but quit that once the war mongering Americans hung out there after WWII.
Damn that global policeman!
Kinda rant that makes you wonder…some more…if a lefty gives a rat’s ass about anyone else’s freedom, rights and security other than their own.
But then again…show me a tyrannical despot, and I can probably show you a lefty of one sort or another.
Gerald Caplan. Not the same G. K. who used to star in the weekly TV comedy “My Three Putzes” along with Kirby and Segal?
That G. K.?
You’re kidding? I mean, if no one took him seriously way back then (when at least he had some TV coverage) why get all worked up now?
The fellow is a fuzzy-faced a$$!
I was in the UN’s “Impotent & Neutered Peace-Keeping Farce” in the then-Belgian Congo of the early 60’s.
GK’s characterization of US influence in this engagement is as spurious as are his other lies and fabrications.
caplan is not the sharpest blade in the box. too bad his grasp of history is a non grasp. the man does not seem to be able to use critical analysis skills.
I suppose it is only a matter of time before the United States marshals its armed forces for a mass, bloodthirsty invasion of Canada to capture its oil fields, potash mines, breweries and poutine recipes. What I can’t figure out is what has taken it so long.
As a Canadian married to a Marine, I concur.
Thank God for the United States Marine Corps and the men and women who step up to serve.
That being said, one of my devildog’s particular gripes is the bumper sticker,
“Free Tibet”.
Same muttered-under-the-breath response every time he sees one:
“Yeah, but none of them ever offers to pick up a rifle to actually FREE Tibet”.
On the American Civil War, the encapsulation of American thinking and it’s evolution upwards in defining America and America’s meaning, is perhaps best expressed by the mind of one man, Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 1861; Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, November 1863; and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 1865 are all masterpieces, in related sequence or individually, of American political philosophy.
I doubt that either Gerald Caplan or America’s current president can grasp the meaning of what Lincoln expressed.
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hello fellow Canadian married to a US Marine. Where are you stationed?