Our Mideast mission implausible
Take a deep breath. Adjust your glasses. Read on. See if you can make any sense from the following list.
The Islamic State. The Free Syrian Army. The Syria Revolutionaries Front. The Hazm Movement. The Yarmouk Brigade. The Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union. The Mujahedeen Army. The Asalaw-wa-al-Tanmiya Front. The Noureddin al-Zengi Battalions. The Ahl al-Athar Brigade. The Shields of the Revolution Council. The Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement. The Tawhid Brigade. The Army of Islam. Jabhat al-Nusra. The Jaysh al-Sham. The Sham al-Islam Movement. The Jund al-Sham. The Muhajerin wa-Ansar Alliance.
All clear? This is a partial list of combatant groups in the Syrian civil war, or whatever that conflict has become. Add to this list the forces of President Bashar al-Assad – forces that in many cases are actually controlled by warlords, rather than the government – and then ask: Who are Western powers, including Canada, fighting? With what means? Are the means proportionate to the objectives? And what are those objectives, for what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a “necessary and noble” mission?
READ MORE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/our-mideast-mission-implausible/article20893866/
Any of you who believes this bullshit needs to see a psychiatrist NOW. Targeted bombings will only force these militants into hiding.
These people exist everywhere..... here, GB, Germany, France, Italy, name a country and they are there especially in the Mideast so how do you stop them with a boom here, there a boom everywhere a boom boom.
This prick Harper and the other World leaders live in a fantasy world where stupid people exist and believe their leaders can solve a centuries old problem over night.
The first unsuccessful attempt to bring down the World Trade Center was in 1992, they succeeded in 2001, 9 years later. The week after the 1992 attempt the American media evaluated and explained why it failed but better yet they provided the necessary information required to bring down the buildings.
I vividly remember watching as a major US station talked with a structural engineer and he told the interviewer and the audience that the underground structure could not be destroyed by your typical car bomb nor could the main towers be damaged by a single engine aircraft such as a Cessna..... it would require a much larger aircraft.
Justin Trudeau's speech at the Canada 2020 conference.
"Unlike prime ministers for decades before him, Mr. Harper has made no effort to build a non-partisan case for war. Instead he dares us to oppose his war, staking out not moral territory but political territory.
As a consequence, all these critical questions go unanswered. We don’t know exactly what he has offered the Americans. We don’t know what our role will look like.
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Take a deep breath. Adjust your glasses. Read on. See if you can make any sense from the following list.
The Islamic State. The Free Syrian Army. The Syria Revolutionaries Front. The Hazm Movement. The Yarmouk Brigade. The Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union. The Mujahedeen Army. The Asalaw-wa-al-Tanmiya Front. The Noureddin al-Zengi Battalions. The Ahl al-Athar Brigade. The Shields of the Revolution Council. The Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement. The Tawhid Brigade. The Army of Islam. Jabhat al-Nusra. The Jaysh al-Sham. The Sham al-Islam Movement. The Jund al-Sham. The Muhajerin wa-Ansar Alliance.
All clear? This is a partial list of combatant groups in the Syrian civil war, or whatever that conflict has become. Add to this list the forces of President Bashar al-Assad – forces that in many cases are actually controlled by warlords, rather than the government – and then ask: Who are Western powers, including Canada, fighting? With what means? Are the means proportionate to the objectives? And what are those objectives, for what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a “necessary and noble” mission?
READ MORE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/our-mideast-mission-implausible/article20893866/
Any of you who believes this bullshit needs to see a psychiatrist NOW. Targeted bombings will only force these militants into hiding.
These people exist everywhere..... here, GB, Germany, France, Italy, name a country and they are there especially in the Mideast so how do you stop them with a boom here, there a boom everywhere a boom boom.
This prick Harper and the other World leaders live in a fantasy world where stupid people exist and believe their leaders can solve a centuries old problem over night.
The first unsuccessful attempt to bring down the World Trade Center was in 1992, they succeeded in 2001, 9 years later. The week after the 1992 attempt the American media evaluated and explained why it failed but better yet they provided the necessary information required to bring down the buildings.
I vividly remember watching as a major US station talked with a structural engineer and he told the interviewer and the audience that the underground structure could not be destroyed by your typical car bomb nor could the main towers be damaged by a single engine aircraft such as a Cessna..... it would require a much larger aircraft.
Justin Trudeau's speech at the Canada 2020 conference.
"Unlike prime ministers for decades before him, Mr. Harper has made no effort to build a non-partisan case for war. Instead he dares us to oppose his war, staking out not moral territory but political territory.
As a consequence, all these critical questions go unanswered. We don’t know exactly what he has offered the Americans. We don’t know what our role will look like.
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We don’t know how long our contribution is expected to last.
We don’t know how helpful our CF-18s will truly be.
In place of these facts we get rhetoric about the nobility of combat. This all makes Canadians understandably anxious."
READ MORE: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/justin-trudeau-the-iraq-fiasco-haunts-the-choices-we-have-to-make-today/
Canada needs a war debate
Thomas Mulcair is right – we’ve been left in the dark about this new foray into Muslim territory
"This military offensive [against the Islamic State] was decided upon – or rather, it seems, improvised – amid an emotional climate triggered by the beheadings of Western hostages. This was an understandable political response, but was it wise to rush impulsively down the path to war without first assessing the situation and the risks? Alas, at a time when cool-headed analysis was required, too many politicians preferred to spend their time hurling vain cries of indignation against 'the barbarians.' "
Read the full article here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/canada-ne…/article20863745/
We don’t know how helpful our CF-18s will truly be.
In place of these facts we get rhetoric about the nobility of combat. This all makes Canadians understandably anxious."
READ MORE: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/justin-trudeau-the-iraq-fiasco-haunts-the-choices-we-have-to-make-today/
Canada needs a war debate
Thomas Mulcair is right – we’ve been left in the dark about this new foray into Muslim territory
"This military offensive [against the Islamic State] was decided upon – or rather, it seems, improvised – amid an emotional climate triggered by the beheadings of Western hostages. This was an understandable political response, but was it wise to rush impulsively down the path to war without first assessing the situation and the risks? Alas, at a time when cool-headed analysis was required, too many politicians preferred to spend their time hurling vain cries of indignation against 'the barbarians.' "
Read the full article here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/canada-ne…/article20863745/
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