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RE: Not really a surprise....
By Missing Ghost on 11/9/2007 10:50:28 PM , Rating: 2
We have armed forces, but that doesn't mean we aren't pacifists. The armed forces are kept to a minimum and only used reluctantly. They are currently only used for missions of help and reconstruction, and to ensure our sovereignty in the North.

Nobody is providing protection for us. If I look in the streets I see no USA soldiers. We are against projects like the USA missile shield. Our protection is from diplomacy; we don't go around saying we may attack other countries, like... Iran, North Korea, Syria. Pumping money into your army at an insane rate is certainly a kind of menace too.

RE: Not really a surprise....
By mal1 on 11/10/2007 1:29:49 AM , Rating: 1
Pacifists don't make chemical/biological weapons and test them on their own citizens...

RE: Not really a surprise....
By Ringold on 11/10/2007 1:59:11 AM , Rating: 2
Our protection is from diplomacy;

In the long run, when, in history, exactly has that ever worked?

As the Cylons would say, it's happened before and shall happen again. Canada is just behind the Japanese 8 ball; they went the pacifist route (forced to by us), realized they had no significant influence in the world at the end of the day, and now look, they've got a quickly growing "Self Defense Force" doing things other than strictly "Self Defense".

Canada's defense has come from the fact Roosevelt laid it out quite plainly in the early 1940s; an attack on Canada is tantamount to an attack on the US, and virtually all US military planning involving the defense of North America includes Canada as if it were a collection of additional northern States, whether Canada likes it or not. It more or less has to be that way; we could every draft-eligible man in America and not have enough to defend that border.

