We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:04:59 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...when a nation that stormed ashore on Juno Beach must now rent airplanes to deploy it's emergency Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to assist in a disaster? By definition, now being a third tier player, in terms of ability to respond in terms of speed and capability? This, from a national government that champions "Soft Power" as the wave of the future? I understand multilaterlism, fellas - but this is like the local paramedics having to call for a Taxi. It does not inspire confidence. Mind you - I'm sure the DART team will do just fine when it arrives,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:19:30 -0600 didn't have a military. Then let him figure out how to respond. "Always return the serve--it not only demonstrates your gentlemanly qualities, it confuses the hell out of your opponent..." =] ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11554 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11554 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:41:34 -0600 A Canadian I know who's normally quite rational actually asked why Canada needed a military. I still don't know how to respond. He also pointed to their GNP % expenditure as justification for their current spending levels as adequate...Never mind that Brazil spends more than Canada. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11528 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11528 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:28:05 -0600 "Soft Power",my ass.......The way I put ,is that the same excuse Loyd Axworthy gives his old lady,when the Viagra doesn't work?........Having to rent heavy lift aircraft. Look at a map of Canada. The DART is stationed in Ontario. One big earthquake on the west coast and we don't even have internal transportation. I just HATE Liberals. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11523 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11523 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:32:15 -0600 Well, I'd let Chris in India rule more definitively, but I'd put the Indians as a 'second tier' force poised to join the Big Boys pretty quickly. And they didn't have as far to go, either. And, being in their back and front yards, pretty high incentive level, too! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11506 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11506 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:50:11 -0600 Latest reports say DART arrived, and realized it's mission was pointless, so much aid had already arrived at the site in Sri Lanka that _the_ NGO's_ were bailing out to go to harder hit areas. The Indian army had already set up water purification system where "we" arrived. Nice. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11502 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11502 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:47:46 -0600 John, Check your mailbox. It was making the rounds in MND-N in 2001-2002. Bill http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11495 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11495 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:42:53 -0600 Then the West and Maritimes (and possibly Quebec) can stage 3 separate Velvet Revolutions, leaving Ontario to be "Canada." Or the West and Maritimes can federate, be "Canada" and let Ontario and Quebec assume their seats in the UN as... Ontario and Quebec. Ya'll could merge with us, but that would square so many circles the sound of exploding skulls on both sides of the border would be annoying. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11494 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11494 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:31:05 -0600 Touch wood when you say that, John. I got a shiver up my spine when you said "surrender sovereignty." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11493 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11493 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:04:41 -0600 But no one has the guts to just come out and say, "Hey, the US is gonna cover it, let's just build ourselves as the UN's PeaceKeeping Force - and be that. Which in a sense is kind of odd, given the Canadian government and elites emotional investment in the UN. Or, so it appears to this Southron, anyway. Not that I wish that upon Canada's soldiery, nor would I expect that level of honesty from the Government (or ours, either) - though I can see (not being Canadian) Canada being the first country to actually surrender soveriegnty in things international to the UN. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11465 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11465 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:48:07 -0600 I wish we could convince our people that we need an effective military to be the kind of giving and caring Canada that they think we are..... but they seem brainwashed. I've heard young people say dumbass things like "If Canada had a real military then we'd start invading other countries"... and they've been dead serious. I fear for our future. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11455 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11455 Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:03:41 -0600 The real horror of Canada's DART is that when they rent scarce aircraft for their use they may have displaced some other relief flight. Sending DART could have a net zero result. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11453 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/01/how_sad_is_it.html#comment-11453 Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:08:25 -0600