Re: Canadians soldiers die
If you've watched the news recently, you've almost certainly been bombarded with all manner of stories and editorials about the recent bombing of Canadian soldiers by an American pilot.
Well, though luck for them, but that's what they're there for; soldiers are trained and paid to slaughter each other so it's barely surprising when this actually happens.
How people can possibly think it's ``shocking'' or ``outrageous'' that a soldier should die in war -- an illegal and undeclared war, let's not forget -- is beyond me.
Many people will call such a position callous or insensitive. The solution is simple, however: if you don't want to die in a war, don't be a soldier; don't go to foreign lands to slaughter others; don't participate in illegal invasions.
The only thing shocking or outrageous about this entire affair is the fact that people are rabidly calling for ``commissions'' or ``tribunals'' to look into the causes of death. Where is this clamoring when innocent Afghani villagers are slaughtered by ``mistakes'' or ``misguided bombs'' or ``wrong intelligence'' or just plain ignorance? Nowhere, that's where, or there'd be hundreds of such commissions.
The death of four people is horrible, of course, but no more horrible just because they happen to be white suburban Western Canadians. Is it somehow more horrible because the deaths were cause by ``friendly fire''? No, of course not. Would it somehow be ``noble'' to get blown up while running through the Afghan mountains trying to slaughter Afghanis instead of while ``merely'' practicing for said slaughter? Absolutely not.
The deep hypocrisy of many Canadians is revealed by their shrugging non-concern when Afghan people are slaughtered verses their shrill and self-righteous denouncing of everything from Canadian military funding to the decisions of commanders when Canadians happen to die in the same illegal war.
War causes death, destruction and suffering; when people die in wars, it's hardly surprising or shocking.