Monday, November 20, 2006
Canada needs a bigger army
I'm humble and grateful enough to praise Canadian valor in Afghanistan, but if this story is true Canada needs a bigger army, at least if it wants to claim that it is doing its share for the Anglosphere:
Canada might not be able to extend the life of its 2,500-strong mission to Afghanistan beyond February 2009 because many troops will be needed to ensure security at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, according to a document released on Monday.
There is an additional obvious question the linked story does not pose: If the security concerns for the Winter Olympics in a location as remote as the Canadian Pacific coast are such that even a country with the military tradition of Canada cannot provide security without "stretching" -- there's that word again -- its army, is it safe for the International Olympic Committee to award the Games to any small country?
4 Comments:
By 
GreenmanTim, at
Mon Nov 20, 11:19:00 PM:
Small countries (outside of the UAR and Brunei, maybe) would have to bankrupt themselves with new infrastructure to attract the Olympics anyway. Maybe they could get a UN mission to protect the games once they've blown the GDP on luge tracks and kickbacks.
By Papa Ray, at
Mon Nov 20, 11:33:00 PM:
Well, it does look like the Canadian Army is kinda small, as how big the country is.
Maybe they could convince the French to contract out their F. Legion for a few weeks.
Now that would be some kind of security.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
By GreenmanTim, at
Mon Nov 20, 11:49:00 PM:
Slipped decades on the acronym, above. UAR indeed. I meant those marvelously wealthy emirates, not Greater Egypt or whatever they were up to back then.
By Fire, at
Tue Nov 21, 10:43:00 AM:
2,500-strong
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
