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Old 03-23-2009, 06:52 PM   #31 (permalink)
james t kirk
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Now that that is out of the way... The show is nothing but satire. Repeated: NOTHING besides satire. If you watched it, you would know. I mean, for God's sake - The man draws some stupid snippet of the days news on a piece of computer paper EVERY SHOW! (And it usually involves a unicorn...) This whole segment stems from the show poking fun at Canadians for deciding to jump out of fighting for one year. It may seem as especially hateful to those who have only seen this one clip, but this is how they treat every story they cover.

So... what I have gathered from this thread is that you (Jay) are upset because this show that you never watch is making fun of the Canadian military for doing something that a military really should never do (ie. run out of resources) and poking fun at a few ethnic stereotypes of Canadians while doing so. Because you are upset at this show you know nothing about, but feel that your countrymen and country have been specifically targeted for an extreme verbal lashing by them, you make hasty and emotional comments and cite lines from Wikipedia .
You're not understanding the "taking a year off" in the context of which it was presented.

The Canadian Armed Forces have been in Afghanistan since 2003 I believe and aren't scheduled to leave until 2011 or 2012. (Can't remember, the gov't has extended the deadline for withdrawl on 2 separate occcasions. In Afghanistan, you have the Americans, British, Canadians, Dutch, and Australians doing all the heavy lifting. The rest of the NATO allies are directing traffic in Kabul. Canada has lost about 120 soldiers now in this war. Given that our population is one tenth of yours, that would be akin to the USA losing 1,200 soldiers in Afghanistan.

Prior to that, we were in Bosnia,

Prior to that, we were in Africa.

Etc. etc. etc.

Here's a list...

List of Canadian military operations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He wasn't saying they are going to shut down the army for a year after this American War is over, he's saying, no more over seas duties for a year.

I don't think that's too much to ask for personally.

---------- Post added at 10:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 PM ----------

Just a couple of points.....

1. I've never heard of this show before and the fact that it's on a 3 a.m. (or so I read) tells you how good it is.

2. I don't think the opinions expressed on this show echoes what most Americans think. I'm sure that if you talked with them they'd be very forward in their thanks for the assistance in Afghanistan.

3. Check out the ears on that one guy in the clip! (Was his father also his brother?)

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