![]() ![]() We have to be prepared to contribute more, and that is what this government’s been doing.”Īuthor Yves Engler has argued that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is preparing Canada to be in a constant state of war readiness. The real defining moments for the country where you take a side and show you can contribute to the right side. Harper, who believes that the “courageous warrior” is a founding principle of Canadian identity, told MacLeans, “Canada has a proud military history, beginning with the War of 1812 that essentially began to establish our sense of national identity. Supplying the ideological framework for Natynczyk’s military operational perspective is Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s militaristic vision of Canada’s mission. So if not Afghanistan, where’s it going to be?” Can we go somewhere else now?’ You also have the young sailors, soldiers, airmen and women who have just finished basic training and they want to go somewhere and in their minds it was going to be Afghanistan. He’s telling his troops to keep their “kit packed up” ready for new military adventures: “We have some men and women who have had two, three and four tours and what they’re telling me is ‘Sir, we’ve got that bumper sticker. ![]() Eisenhower, April 16, 1953Ĭanadian Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk is hot to trot, ready and eager for new military missions. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” - Dwight D. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. ![]()
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