urbanboom
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It's funny that Pakistan is #1. I would've guessed that that'd be a place where peacekeepers were sent to, not from.
It's funny that Pakistan is #1. I would've guessed that that'd be a place where peacekeepers were sent to, not from.
This is what I've forwarded to the Toronto stars and I called them
I would like to report that yet again, Fox news host has made horrible comments about Canada off the air and it was caught on video.
I was on Yahoo last night and I saw the headline on Yahoo's page but I couldn't access the video.
I came home this morning and the article had vanished from Yahoo's page. (Must have been at Fox News request)
I remembered the title and found the link.
I think it's important that Canadians realise that Fox News have absolutely no respect towards us and we should start to boycott them.
They said that Canada should have been bombed by the U.S so that we would become a military support to the US out of fear to make us quit our peace keeping missions.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?rn=222561&cl=13042397&ch=8033027
We actually are pretty low in the world when it comes to peacekeeping...
We are 50th.
There a little bit of difference in the population numbers between Canada and the US. Why compare the two as you have?
Canada doesn't go around warring for oil either, we have our own. We also don't go out of our way to piss off the rest of the world, like the US does.
Relative to our population Canada does not pull its weight in terms of military funding and operations, and the obligations we have to our allies. As a neighbour to the USA we tend to sit back and allow Americans to pick up this cost and responsibility, and they know it. Should we really be protesting too loudly when they express mocking disbelief at the 'distortions' of our propaganda or resentment at our lack of cooperation with American policy? Just a thought...
You completely missed my point.
And you completely missed mine...and then continued on your typical tangential rant about nothing. carry on.
You're an american, aren't you?
Whoaccio. Good points all. The point I have tried to make here though and the one that Tewder raised is that the average Canadians thinks we are some kind of global moral superman with our peacekeeping efforts. That is of course false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
When it comes to defence spending the counter argument would be that we should at least spend enough to defend Canada. We have 15 major surface combatants in our navy to defend three or the largest coastlines and EEZs in the world. Our air force has 48 combat coded fighters to defend one of the largest airspaces in the world. Heck, it's a longer flight to Alert from Trenton than to Chile in South America. That's why, for example, we need heavy lift aircraft like C-17s.Arguably, our Army is the only right sized service.
So what has this policy led to: NORAD. We essentially cede our sovereignty over to the Americans. They defend our waters and our airspace. The second effect is more perverse. The single service that is about the right size for Canada is the one that we deploy and abuse the most as a tool of foreign policy.
I would not advocate for US style defence spending, but when we don't have the budgets to buy our troops the right colour uniforms when they deploy, there's a problem. And I don't see why its wrong for the US media to call us out on that. Even now in Afghanistan, we have to rely on French Air support, Dutch airlift, British attack helicopters, etc because we don't bring our own. If the government feels that Canada should participate in conflicts like these should they not ensure that we have the right tools for the job?
Aside from the military spending issue....Canada does really poorly at diplomacy and development aid as well. And I would consider those equally important elements of national power.