{"id":37658,"date":"2018-09-12T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37658"},"modified":"2018-09-12T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:32:13","slug":"canadian-leftist-militarism-leaves-decency-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37658","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Leftist Militarism Leaves Decency Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Leftist Militarism Leaves Decency Behind<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If one were to travel north through North America, with the seasons or the change in climate, harvesting crops of patriotic warmongering, the biggest drop in crop yield might come around the Mason Dixon Line, not the Canadian border.<\/p>\n

Yves Engler\u2019s new book, Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada\u2019s Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em> proposes to provide 10% of the explanation for why many Canadians suffer under the delusion that their nation\u2019s government is a benevolent force in the world \u2014 with the other 90% having come in an earlier book<\/a> on propaganda.<\/p>\n

Canada participates in numerous U.S.-led wars and coups. Usually Canada\u2019s role is so minor that one cannot imagine its removal making much of a difference, except that the principle impact is in fact one of propaganda. The United States is a bit less of a rogue for every co-conspiring junior partner it drags along. Canada is a fairly reliable participant, and one that boosts the use of both NATO and the United Nations as cover for crime.<\/p>\n

In the United States, traditional barbaric justifications for war are overwhelmingly dominant in motivating the largest portion of the population that supports any war, with humanitarian fantasies playing a minor role. In Canada, the humanitarian claims seem to be required by a slightly larger percentage of the population, and Canada has developed those claims accordingly, making itself a leading promoter of \u201cpeace keeping\u201d as a euphemism for war making, and of R2P (the responsibility to protect) as an excuse to destroy places like Libya.<\/p>\n

I would very much prefer a policy called war keeping that used peaceful means, to war under the label \u201cpeace keeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Canadian Leftist Militarism Leaves Decency Behind If one were to travel north through North America, with the seasons or the change in climate, harvesting crops of patriotic warmongering, the biggest drop in crop yield might come around the Mason Dixon Line, not the Canadian border. Yves Engler\u2019s new book, Left, Right: Marching to the Beat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[103,21620,12254,5510],"class_list":["post-37658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-canadian-militarism","tag-david-swanson","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37659,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions\/37659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}