Following my good friend -and I do mean my good friend - David Harrison's diatribe dissing American foreign policy, in the interest of balanced journalism, perhaps his next essay will discuss American humanism shown with the introduction of the Marshall Plan and the subsequent Berlin Air Lift. But I won't hold my breath.
Like so many of these historical revisionists, David describes how our country "has changed from a tender, peaceful nation to an aggressive warlike nation willing to kill foreign leaders and their innocent families." Really?
I suppose we were tender during our peacekeeping years while we kept the Greeks away from the Turks in Cypress, or General Lewis McKenzie's efforts under the TIN mandate in Boznia to keep the Serbs away from the Croats and the Croats away from the Muslims, or any other combination thereof?
I, like most Canadians, am proud of Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement during the Suez Crisis. Will history really remember these endeavors or will it remember the performance of Canada during the events of the last century that changed the course of
history? I refer to our involvement in WWI and WWII.
I wonder if the Kaisers troops defined Canada as a "peaceful nation" as we conquered Vimy Ridge or whether Hitler's Panzer divisions defending his Atlantic Wall considered us as a "peaceful nation" as we stormed Juno beach and penetrated further than any of our allies on June 6, I944.
"A tender peaceful nation."
Right.
Doug Strachan
Prince George
