Know your Enemy
I have been in a lot of discussions on terrorism and tactic recently. I thought I'd lay down a little background over at Political Write.
Have a look and feel free to comment here or there.
posted by Mike @ 3:45 PM
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6 Comments:
Mike Park, I don't see your comments there. What is it you want us to respond to?
Well, Anonalogue, I won't comment on your "pussification" stuff because its just silly.
As for the CPC being the "only party that is serious about restoring dignity and funding to the Canadian Forces", you are wrong. The policy of the NDP, believe it or not, is also to strengthen and modernize our Armed Forces with more spending and increasing the size of the forces. Even the Libs boosted Defence spending in the last two budgets. I 'm sorry you saw this as a partisan issue.
If you read my post, you'll see I see fighting terrorism as a non-partisan issue. We must fight terrorism in the best and most effective way that doesn't also give the terrorists what they want - the destruction of our pluralistic, democratic society.
I'd love you to comment on that.
"The policy of the NDP, believe it or not, is also to strengthen and modernize our Armed Forces with more spending and increasing the size of the forces."
lol
Anonalogue,
Are you saying you make descisions based on the number of mailings you receive? I would have thought you would actually read the party platforms before you decide.
You have actually read the NDP defence policy and costing from the last election, right?
As for priorities, need I remind you how many amendmants the CPC made to the budget during the debate to give more money to the Armed Forces: 0.
Stephen Harper had his chance and didn't take it. Jack Layton did. If defence was really that urgent for the CPC, instead of pressing for an unwanted election for 3 months, they could have sat down and negotiatied their support to get something good out of a bad situation. But he didn't. He decided to act like a child in parliament. Harper had a chance to speak up for the Canadian Forces and didn't. He didn't take the chance before the Brault testimony broke, when he called the budget a "Conservative budget". He could have.
We'll see who has the more sensible defence policy in the next election.
Mike, national defence is my next agenda topic, and you may be interested in a spot i did on Harpers speach in washington today. Also, I have required a copy of the NDP policy for the upcoming election, and you are right, I was surprised at the NDP policy on defence, but the new conservative agenda may also surprise you as well. I could mail you a copy of the NDP agenda if you like, it is much more detailed than what is on the web....
Good article Mike, well researched and put together. More should read it, it might help them understand terrorists a little better, and as we talked about before, I found this article interesting as well....
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1077288,00.html
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