The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
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Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
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Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Memo to Anglosphere free-loaders: Stop it.
There’s a debate going on over at Albion’s Seedlings, Jim Bennett’s team blog (For those that don’t know, James Bennett is the author of the Anglosphere Challenge and founder of The Anglosphere Institute. You can get a good primer on his thesis here), about Canada’s, New Zealand’s and Ireland’s history of defence free-riding. Lexington Green made what I thought was a spectacular claim: namely, that except for World War I, Canada has performed poorly in its military history owing to its chronic unwillingness to prepare during peacetime. Whatever specific merits there are to this claim, this is, of course, an odd, even absurd generalization to make in regards to the country's victorious WWII achievements and critical contribution in saving Britain (1939-41) and Europe (1944-45) from Hitler and the Nazis.
But getting to the heart of the issue, we are presently a bunch of shameless free-loaders. Not only free-loaders, but free-loaders of the worst kind; the selfish, “morally superior” kind. We have replaced the virtues of our grandfathers, the virtues of the “greatest generation”, with our own. Because this America-hating generation knows better. They think not in moral terms, but in relativistic terms, that the War against Islamism is a matter of preference, not necessity. They’re too brain dead to see that the entire Middle East needs to be transformed into something more constitutionally moderate and free, lest the incubators of Islamo-fascist terrorism continue to imperil our security or worse; blow us to smithereens. The truth is that this generation is not morally superior, they are morally neutral. They are indifferent to the long-term plight of the Middle East.
I’m not saying that the neo-cons are more virtuous, that they are doing all of this out of the goodness of their hearts. But make no mistake; whether it is for the wrong reasons, they are doing the right thing and the necessary thing. Quit your Bush and Blair bashing, folks, we don’t have a choice here. Whether we are talking Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya…all of these governments need to be fundamentally transformed. Just because you live in New Zealand, Canada and Ireland under the protective envelopes of larger powers does not mean that it is not in your interest to do some heavy lifting here.
To all my fellow Canadians I say just wait for the day when another terrorist incident takes hold, which turns out to have been instigated from north of the border. You don’t think all hell’s going to break loose? Our only saving grace will be if we are seen to be a staunch ally, have hard assets in the field and are making a meaningful contribution to the war of our generation. Get over yourself, folks. Start cheering. Make us proud. Pick up a rifle and join your country's army. God save the Queen.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 12:59 p.m. | LINKS |
There’s a debate going on over at Albion’s Seedlings, Jim Bennett’s team blog (For those that don’t know, James Bennett is the author of the Anglosphere Challenge and founder of The Anglosphere Institute. You can get a good primer on his thesis here), about Canada’s, New Zealand’s and Ireland’s history of defence free-riding. Lexington Green made what I thought was a spectacular claim: namely, that except for World War I, Canada has performed poorly in its military history owing to its chronic unwillingness to prepare during peacetime. Whatever specific merits there are to this claim, this is, of course, an odd, even absurd generalization to make in regards to the country's victorious WWII achievements and critical contribution in saving Britain (1939-41) and Europe (1944-45) from Hitler and the Nazis. But getting to the heart of the issue, we are presently a bunch of shameless free-loaders. Not only free-loaders, but free-loaders of the worst kind; the selfish, “morally superior” kind. We have replaced the virtues of our grandfathers, the virtues of the “greatest generation”, with our own. Because this America-hating generation knows better. They think not in moral terms, but in relativistic terms, that the War against Islamism is a matter of preference, not necessity. They’re too brain dead to see that the entire Middle East needs to be transformed into something more constitutionally moderate and free, lest the incubators of Islamo-fascist terrorism continue to imperil our security or worse; blow us to smithereens. The truth is that this generation is not morally superior, they are morally neutral. They are indifferent to the long-term plight of the Middle East.
I’m not saying that the neo-cons are more virtuous, that they are doing all of this out of the goodness of their hearts. But make no mistake; whether it is for the wrong reasons, they are doing the right thing and the necessary thing. Quit your Bush and Blair bashing, folks, we don’t have a choice here. Whether we are talking Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya…all of these governments need to be fundamentally transformed. Just because you live in New Zealand, Canada and Ireland under the protective envelopes of larger powers does not mean that it is not in your interest to do some heavy lifting here.
To all my fellow Canadians I say just wait for the day when another terrorist incident takes hold, which turns out to have been instigated from north of the border. You don’t think all hell’s going to break loose? Our only saving grace will be if we are seen to be a staunch ally, have hard assets in the field and are making a meaningful contribution to the war of our generation. Get over yourself, folks. Start cheering. Make us proud. Pick up a rifle and join your country's army. God save the Queen.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 12:59 p.m. | LINKS |
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