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Griffin said:Stoney, thank you for the reasoned comments.
How anyone could suggest that pointing out government failures to support the CF was an attack on the troops is utter nonsense. Indeed by the time any reader had reached that portion of the book should have readily seen the support being given to the CF by pointing out government failures to properly fund, equip and man the CF. The suggestions of dishonesty, etc. are in exceptionally poor taste. I guess they think Major General (retired) Clive Addy who wrote the testimonial for the book doesn't know squat, Major General (retired) Lew MacKenenzie who reviewed at least one draft and encouraged the author to proceed doesn't know his stuff, Col. (retired) Howie Marsh who supplied some graphs on funding for the book is not to be trusted either, nor does Jack Granatstein and many others who saw the drafts before it was published for FREE on the Internet as a public service.
I will move to other topics, and hope that repetition of this behaviour isn't the norm. Oh yes, to some of the doubting Thomas's, I started viewing this board when I joined. That is how I have worked on the Internet in military, police, and other forums since the late 1980's, including being on various forum staff. If I have used words that may have offended some through miscommunication, then I apologize. Enough said.
Your post reveals quite a bit about your own reasoning here. In that apparently you believe that only those who agree with your point of view are capable of forming and voicing "reasoned comments" and that the rest are doubting Thomas' with behaviour you hope isn't the norm.
That's very interesting seeing as how the comments are coming from some very reasoned pers who were very involved with and quite intimate of the goings-on regarding Op Peregrine who have questioned the authors judgement of that event. That is reasonable. Especially if the author's judgement is flawed in it's reasoning.
You, on the other hand, seem to be quite intimate with the goings on regarding this book...are you the author perchance? Maybe not the author, but your posts certainly seem to lead me to the belief that you were involved in it's production somehow and thus, may be holding a bias in it's favour.
My .02 worth.