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Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 5:48 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I don't know that this holds in a military context, Generals Patton and Schwartzkopf are famous braggarts but surely not cowards.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 2:11 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

WW1, probably so. WW2 is the exceptional war now used to garner emotional support for all manner of dubious police actions.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 2:09 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I think it's a bit strong to suggest that nations are currently cooperating but we're straying. The issue is whether or not we should feel a debt of emotional gratitude to people who choose to fight...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:53 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I think that's fair. Getting into a war in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands won't ultimately change the world, it generates a few jobs, some people get killed, but looked at even fifty years...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:49 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

If you'd like a complete run down on the different legal statuses that count as "British" talk to JAJ, there are subjects, citizens, residents of overseas territories etc. etc. Place of birth has...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:36 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I'm not badmouthing them, if they want to go and fight I suppose that's their choice, my objection is just to their claim on the sympathy of the public; invading Afghanistan, Iraq or for that matter...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:32 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I didn't say they are lesser people, just lesser subjects. The French, for example, are not lesser people despite not being subjects at all.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:06 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

Commendable I'm sure. I don't dispute that the armed forces include brave people sometimes pursuing worthwhile activities but the appeal is for gratitude, something that implies that troops act on...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 12:44 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

You bit me first! Nyah nyah, etc.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 12:34 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

<lets her typo pass>
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 12:22 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

You miss the point. These men may be brave. It may be tragic that they die but it's not for us that they do it.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 12:10 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

The problem with this sort of emotional appeal is that it depends on our believing that the actions of the troops do, in fact, relate to our safety. In the case of the wars in my lifetime, notably...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 8:36 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I don't imagine they do but I expect there are some common themes, interest in physical activity, valuing the company of one's own sex, a desire to travel, a desire to acquire a trade and/or to have...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 8:26 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

I think that's a stretch. People volunteer for a job pursuing the foreign policy aims of the government, they're not conscripts defending homeland but adventurers abroad. I have some sympathy for the...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:24 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

There's the problem for the forces of the US and the UK and increasingly those of Canada. They're not acting on behalf of most of the population and so we don't feel that we owe them anything.
Forum: Canada
Apr 15th 2008, 3:26 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

Hydro lineman, offshore fisherman, independent logger, innit?
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 5:31 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

Lots of people at the Legion, but not lots of veterans at the Legion.
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 3:38 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

The file contains pictures of people watching a military funeral back when the death of a Canadian in combat was a novelty, shortly after the switch from being a peacekeeping force. No such crowds...
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 2:09 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By dbd33

Re: Mail on Sunday

Britain was a colonial power, it maintained a standing army in order to conquer other countries and to put down rebellions. It may be that the army put up an heroic defence of the nation when there...
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