Our kids aren`t coerced, bribed, threatened and lied to.
Maybe not the kids, but while I was expecting excessive nationalism in Canada's army, I sure wasn't expecting the level of racism and ethnicism I'd witnessed. I wasn't too impressed with the NCO collecting Nazi paraphernalia either. he insisted he wasn't Nazi but just liked historical artefacts. Fine enough, but very suspicious when one of the guys he works with has Nazi tattoos, we hear racist slurs on a daily basis, and one guy was in tehre to get free weapons training courtecy of the Canadian armed Forces so he could go train the Freemen in the US once his contract was over.
How did I get into the military. Simple. I went along with Hollywood and blablahed about wanting to serve my country, etc. and that was it. If you had Nzi tattoos, all you had to say was you'd changed, no more questions asked, they'd just say you have to cover them in public. I was not impressed. And these are Canada's peacekeepers.
From my experience in Wainright, Alberta, among the varios NATO troops in town, the Americans were usually the least savage of the bunch. The Brits were the worst, Canadians quite bad too. I never got to talk much with the Norwegians though.
So yes, I'll still criticize the US administration, and I'm sure the US military is not much better. But while Canada's administration might be far superior to the US one, the US military itself is more civilized than the Canadian one form my experience. Less racist too, in spite of its history.
So let's be critical, always a good thing, but let's be equally critical towards our own too.
