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This is just something I quickly wrote to send into a newspaper to voice my opnions after reading about all the "peacekeeper this and that crap". I didnt end up putting it in so i thought i would put it on here as not to waste it. I really do appreciate what you men and women in uniform do, and put up with, for us. Thanks alot.
When it comes down to the Afghan mission I believe it is our duty as a first world country to intervene and assist countries like Afghanistan when their people are being oppressed. Everyone in Canada, thanks to our armed forces of the past, present and future, are welcome to their own opinion. If the thankful Afghans aren't persuasion enough to support our mission, so be it. However, please, and I must strongly state this, DO NOT refer to our soldiers as traditional peacekeepers. There is no such thing and there never will be. To be a peacekeeper a soldier must walk into an area that is already at peace. So a soldier in Canada could be considered a peacekeeper, but anytime they are on a boat or plane off to a theatre of conflict they are warriors of freedom, they are soldiers of Canada. Our soldiers are trained to fight wars, they are soldiers. They are not trained as peacekeepers. That is only a name they are given when they must go MAKE peace. So if you wary Canadians must call our soldiers anything but a soldier, please say peace maker. There is no grater insult to a soldier then to call him a peacekeeper. It is like calling a police officer a security guard at Wal-Mart. To those Canadians that repeatedly say " We have strayed from our roles as peacekeepers " my question to you is do you know anything about Canadian history? From the Boer war, First World War, Second World War, Korean War ( yes it was a war ) and so on, our soldiers have displayed the tenacity of the Canadian soldier and our allies and enemies alike have always had the greatest respect for Canada's fighting men and women. You want to know what your precious "peacekeeping" does, do some reading on Rwanda. That shows that the UN Peacekeeping missions do nothing but watch as people get slaughtered. If the Western allies would have made it a mission of "peace making" also known as "war" many thousands would have been saved from a problem a western government started in the first place. Today’s generation of Canadians are selfish and take peace for granted. We have our lovely style of life because of what our soldiers have done for our country, and the free world, in previous wars. I support them. The government supports them. Now it is time for you to support them. FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT - fortune favours the brave. Thank you soldiers of Canada. Your fight is just and right, history will remember you as hero’s, even if today’s populations do not.
When it comes down to the Afghan mission I believe it is our duty as a first world country to intervene and assist countries like Afghanistan when their people are being oppressed. Everyone in Canada, thanks to our armed forces of the past, present and future, are welcome to their own opinion. If the thankful Afghans aren't persuasion enough to support our mission, so be it. However, please, and I must strongly state this, DO NOT refer to our soldiers as traditional peacekeepers. There is no such thing and there never will be. To be a peacekeeper a soldier must walk into an area that is already at peace. So a soldier in Canada could be considered a peacekeeper, but anytime they are on a boat or plane off to a theatre of conflict they are warriors of freedom, they are soldiers of Canada. Our soldiers are trained to fight wars, they are soldiers. They are not trained as peacekeepers. That is only a name they are given when they must go MAKE peace. So if you wary Canadians must call our soldiers anything but a soldier, please say peace maker. There is no grater insult to a soldier then to call him a peacekeeper. It is like calling a police officer a security guard at Wal-Mart. To those Canadians that repeatedly say " We have strayed from our roles as peacekeepers " my question to you is do you know anything about Canadian history? From the Boer war, First World War, Second World War, Korean War ( yes it was a war ) and so on, our soldiers have displayed the tenacity of the Canadian soldier and our allies and enemies alike have always had the greatest respect for Canada's fighting men and women. You want to know what your precious "peacekeeping" does, do some reading on Rwanda. That shows that the UN Peacekeeping missions do nothing but watch as people get slaughtered. If the Western allies would have made it a mission of "peace making" also known as "war" many thousands would have been saved from a problem a western government started in the first place. Today’s generation of Canadians are selfish and take peace for granted. We have our lovely style of life because of what our soldiers have done for our country, and the free world, in previous wars. I support them. The government supports them. Now it is time for you to support them. FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT - fortune favours the brave. Thank you soldiers of Canada. Your fight is just and right, history will remember you as hero’s, even if today’s populations do not.