As We Draw Ever Closer to World War III, A Few Things Worth Canadians Remembering

OTTAWA —Canadian special forces soldiers on a “non-combat” mission in Iraq have been giving directions to fighter jets to bomb Islamic State positions and have exchanged gunfire with extremists???, the military said Monday, revealing a more involved role for Canadians than previously disclosed.

While their mission to train Iraqi forces (for what? In the event of a third word war, history has already shown that the Middle East especially the Arab nations will NOT be supporting the so called allied Nations—the United States of the Americas) is not supposed to involve fighting, the small band of elite troops has seen frontline action, senior commanders told a briefing.

That frontline action includes calling in airstrikes by Canadian CF-18s on targets and in one dramatic incident in the last week, firing on extremists after being attacked???.

At the time, the Canadians were visiting front-line positions with Iraqi forces as they planned an operation. The group came under “immediate and effective” mortar and machine-gun fire, forcing the Canadians to fire back, Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, told reporters.

“Using sniper fire, they neutralized both threats at some distance,” he said, adding that there were no injuries (to whom?).

“This is the first time this has happened since our arrival and our (or their) reaction is wholly consistent with the inherent right of self-defence.”

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born to an aristocratic family on November 30, 1874 and into a Britain that was washing the map pink, at the cost of washing distant nations blood red.

 British Queen Victoria had just been crowned Empress of India, and the scramble for Africa was only a few years away. At Harrow School and then Sandhurst, he was told a simple story: the superior white man was conquering the primitive, dark-skinned natives, and bringing them the benefits of civilisation and religion. As soon as he could, Churchill charged off to take his part in "a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples".

In the Swat valley, now part of Pakistan, he experienced, fleetingly, a crack of doubt. He realised that the local population was fighting back because of "the presence of British troops in lands the local people considered their own," just as Britain would if she were invaded. But Churchill soon suppressed this thought, deciding instead they were merely deranged jihadists whose violence was explained by a "strong aboriginal propensity to kill".

 As his life unfolded, he displayed the traits of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a British political leader from an established English family, and his mother, Jeannie Jerome, an independent-minded New York socialite. As a young child, Churchill grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, employed his father. When he entered formal school, Churchill proved to be an independent and rebellious student. He did poorly at his first two schools and in April 1888, he was sent to Harrow School, a boarding school near London. Within weeks of his enrollment, he joined the Harrow Rifle Corps, which put him on a path to a military career.

Churchill enjoyed a brief but eventful career in the British army at a zenith of British military power. He gladly took part in raids that laid waste to whole valleys, destroying houses and burning crops. He then sped off to help reconquer the Sudan, where he bragged that he personally shot at least three "savages".

The young Churchill charged through imperial atrocities, defending each in turn. When concentration camps were built in South Africa, for white Boers, he said they produced "the minimum of suffering". The death toll was almost 28,000, and when at least 115,000 black Africans were likewise swept into British camps, where 14,000 died, he wrote only of his "irritation that Kaffirs should be allowed to fire on white men". Later, he boasted of his experiences there: "That was before war degenerated. It was great fun galloping about."

Then as a member of parliament, he demanded a rolling programme of more conquests, based on his belief (similar to Hitler’s) that "the Aryan stock is bound to triumph". There seems to have been an odd cognitive dissonance in his view of the "natives". In some of his private correspondence, he appears to really believe “they are helpless children who will willingly, naturally, gratefully include themselves within the golden circle of an ancient crown". But, when they defied this script, Churchill demanded they be crushed with extreme force. As Colonial Secretary in the 1920s, he unleashed the notorious Black and Tan thugs on Ireland's Catholic civilians, and when the Kurds rebelled against British rule, he said: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... [It] would spread a lively terror."

Always TRY to remember, war has never solved ANY of the world’s problems. Also ASK YOURSELF, who are the terrorists—really.