Yup.
Is CIDA doing much these day?
I had a colleague suggest we send CIDA to New Orleans, and an American among the group said if we tried they'd send USAID to certain northern Inuit communities.
They have no problem smashing a declared enemy's defenses in order to march in, but man-oh-man, the thinking about what to do once there was less than zero. I say less than zero because when one factors in the influences of interests like Halliburton and Blackwater et al, it's almost like it was *designed* to create malcontent among the occupied.How's that I'rak and Afghan blanket thing go'n fer ya?
You can't defeat either force and had to get NATO and other allies involved in both conflicts because you couldn't do it on your own..... if Al'Q/Taliban's technology is 50-60 years behind the times and you can't beat them, what makes you think you can beat technology that's 25-50 years behind the times
You're right when pointing out that the hardware of the forces is not as obsolete as comedians like to say, and you're also correct that people underestimate its power.Hell, for as small as our military is, in WWI, WWII and even in Afghanistan we've done the missions no other country could do and considering we've been stuck in the same spot in Afghanistan since we pretty much landed, which is one of the areas with the most conflict and fighting, which few other nations, including the US, wanted to go..... you're clearly underestimating our capabilities, much like how we were underestimated in the previous World Wars..... in fact, our military accomplishments and abilities in WWI was one of the main reasons why Canada eventually became its own dependent nation.
Good point. I have cousins in the states, and it's amazing how on one hand they presume all eyes of the world are upon them as the vanguard of freedom and democracy, while on the other hand they have this odd notion that nobody knows what they can do such that they'll just have to go out there and prove it.Being your next door neighbors, do you seriously think we don't know where all your bases are, what your military capabilities are, etc?
How's that I'rak and Afghan blanket thing go'n fer ya?
You can't defeat either force and had to get NATO and other allies involved in both conflicts because you couldn't do it on your own..... if Al'Q/Taliban's technology is 50-60 years behind the times and you can't beat them, what makes you think you can beat technology that's 25-50 years behind the times (which is of course yet another gross exaggeration, but whatever makes you feel good)
Hell, for as small as our military is, in WWI, WWII and even in Afghanistan we've done the missions no other country could do and considering we've been stuck in the same spot in Afghanistan since we pretty much landed, which is one of the areas with the most conflict and fighting, which few other nations, including the US, wanted to go..... you're clearly underestimating our capabilities, much like how we were underestimated in the previous World Wars..... in fact, our military accomplishments and abilities in WWI was one of the main reasons why Canada eventually became its own dependent nation.
Being your next door neighbors, do you seriously think we don't know where all your bases are, what your military capabilities are, etc?
You know what we know, and we know what you know.
That's more of a problem for the US then it is for us.
Says the guy who comes in here to add more fuel to the fire with his own paranoid claims that you'd win and why. :-?
/stickpoke
You're the one who's dependent on us.Congratulations on becoming a DEPENDENT nation after WWII.
I have trouble distinguishing between Canada and the U.S.
While differences ably pointed out by all the patriots here, you would be so disappointed how similar the cultures actually are - with real people going about their every day lives, raising kids, keeping jobs, trying to keep the mortgage payments going......
The integration would be insufferable to those who would insist we all get flag tattoos or something to define just "who we are!!!"
Maybe one day either Canadians or Americans will all grow extra noses or heads to define our separation from
each other...... wah wah wah....
"Which of course is another gross exaggeration, but whatever makes you feel good." -Prax
That about sums up your whole post.
Congratulations on becoming a DEPENDENT nation after WWII.
You're the one who's dependent on us.
Last time I checked, the US was self-sufficient in only four strategic minerals (coal, salt, molybdenum, and I can't remember the fourth).
All others minerals required to maintain an industrial society you have to import, although since you've disassembled your iron belt and converted to an "information economy", I guess you don't need them anymore, so I guess we'll just sell them to China.
That whole notion of an "information economy" befuddles me. What kind of "information" are you selling on the world market that other nations will pay for in order for you to have the money to pay for your imports of Chinese manufactured goods?
You're the one who's dependent on us.
All others minerals required to maintain an industrial society you have to import, although since you've disassembled your iron belt and converted to an "information economy", I guess you don't need them anymore, so I guess we'll just sell them to China.
And by all means, continue to avoid the details of the post and summarizing your responses with (what you think are) witty and smart little quips...... if it makes you feel good.
I know exactly what you mean. They're hard to describe, but once you've got a sense for it, it's easy to see.When Chris Bosh was interviewed by an American reporter about why he accepted the offer to play for the NBA's Miami Heat, rejecting the Raptors offer to retain him.. he made comments which many took to be insulting, but which i sympathized with.
He graciously noted Toronto was a great city, and how warmly he had been accepted there by the fans, and respectfully treated by the organization.. but also stated (paraphrased) how foreign the city felt to him.. from the look, the 'beat' of the city, to the smell of the place.. he'd never really felt at home there, always like an outsider.
I sympathise because that has been my experience with travels in America. What's more i can invariably tell, especially in groups, when i'm amongst Americans or Canadians. The differences might be subtle, and in many cases they are not even that, but they are unmistakable once you recognize them.
Why is that a threat?!?China. Oh brother...not that threat again.All others minerals required to maintain an industrial society you have to import, although since you've disassembled your iron belt and converted to an "information economy", I guess you don't need them anymore, so I guess we'll just sell them to
Why is that a threat?!?
Of course we'd sell the stuff to you first! The cost of shipping is cheaper!
But you're not buying!
So what else are we supposed to do if China's knocking at the door offering to buy?!?
NOTHING! Who said anything was?!?What's stopping you?
@#$%ing Canadians are so depressingly afraid of themselves when it comes to being talented, and Americans are so comfortable with being stupid. Fear and stupidity. Nice combination for a continent.
Alcohol, the great facade thinner.http://tunes.digitalock.com/firstwetakemanhatten.mp3 <-- click for sound track
So anyway EagleSmack, you got the most powerful, second to none and overwhelming attack force on the planet. China and Russia gave up in the air against just the threat of your F-22s (which I still want a few to fly up north like the northern lights, and if your congress and President were not as stupid as our legislators and PM we'd have a couple under NORAD to supe-up which would make a *fortune* under a properly structured technology trade agreement!
@#$%ing Canadians are so depressingly afraid of themselves when it comes to being talented, and Americans are so comfortable with being stupid. Fear and stupidity. Nice combination for a continent.
We have Canucks like they're afraid they'll turn into neanderthals if set free... not like people who think better when unoppressed... it's why so many of the good ones end up down there... you're not afraid of talented people... if you ask a cynical sociologist it would be because all the north-American and European less-thans had to move north because they couldn't compete down south, such that for Canucks, social stability is about RCMP putting a lid on idiots... and then you get a twit thrown out of the Liberal party for being someone who wouldn't suck the inner Ontario-Quebec inner-buddy's club who went shuffling to the Reform party and they gave him copies of C.S.Lewis to read, and now he's in charge of a minority, screwing up the main thing government is supposed to do, which is keep things going with trained deputy-ministers who know what they're doing, as if the good deputy ministers had ever cared about which party was in charge {because they got the idea of the Queen, thus it being clear that the top position is already occupied, thus protected against certain forms of bleed-head who can't be happy unless they're conquering like those guys with the DNA they just found showing that 25% of hostile and irrational ancient brains are still around here thinking like before the discovery of agriculture {God Damn I love American Research! The only thing more extreme was Russian research in neuropsychology from all the guys they had with bullets shot through their brains to study what happens when certain brain parts are gone... }}
http://tunes.digitalock.com/honkytonkbarassociation.mp3 <-- click for change of tune to new theme
We were ahead of you when Bush was in charge, and now we're behind, and now we've got a bunch of evangelical northern apes who think society will be better if Fox News figures out a way to jerk even more out of the head of the 36% who voted for Harper while they lay on their back jerking off waiting for Jesus to return... for they know the situation is bad, but they don't know they're being played... it's like a @#$%ing incarnation of fascism in Canada for maybe the first time (although I've heard there were Nazi parties back east before WWII)... I know people I could give a living to by having them convince Harper when he gets a majority to change the colour of the maple leaf to black, but in fact only 37% of Germans every supported Fascism, and look at what strings the evil H was able to pull with just that.)
Anyway, it's Friday... here's your new National Anthem, written by Bob Dylan in 1982... once again decades ahead of his time:
http://tunes.digitalock.com/bdus.mp3 <-- New American National Anthem because you don't make anything anymore so we have to sell resources to China.
Anyway, while you figure out how to get out of those caves covered with bad commercial ice from those jerks you knew in high-school, I'm going to slip into a dream about trade leading to colonization of first the solar system, and then the galaxy, with lots of money and growth inbetween... http://tunes.digitalock.com/princeigor.mp3 <-- click for sleepy-time tune
Night.
@#$%ing Canadians are so depressingly afraid of themselves when it comes to being talented, and Americans are so comfortable with being stupid. Fear and stupidity. Nice combination for a continent.
I don't think this is going off-topic, hope not. The OP obviously has not read a real novel written by a IMO great author that is part satire, part futuristic speculative 'what if?', memorable characters and a has, as its basis the "USUK" (yes, its very funny too) Alliance between Britain & the US which leads to US Marines landing in Britain to "protect" the Brit's from invasion by an actually non-existent foreign power. Daphne du Maurier's last novel "Rule Britannia" - my edition is shown as © 1972 by Daphne du Maurier, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
I read this in the seventies and have reread it quite a few times since and it has come to mind a lot in this thread, as it mainly focuses on a group of small town inhabitants (most of them eccentric of course - but aren't most Canadians? :lol, their reactions and then revolt against what becomes an invasion. I highly recommend it as a good read and fictionally pertinent to a very speculative fictional topic, (keeping in mind that in the upper-class Du Maurier world of the first half of the twentieth century "those demned Yanks!" would be regarded and treated as such merely because they were American and not Brits. Just as Canadians, Australians, etc., were regarded as "those demned colonials!".).
No preview unfortunately, but reviews and overview at Google Books: Rule Britannia - Google Books
Rule Britannia - Google Books