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Geo - Thanks, I do know the difference (and I think you know where I stand WRT to sappers).  I was trying to point out that, in reporting our late comrade as "a combat engineer", the reporter had either not bothered to check out his/her/it's facts or else could not transcribe three words without...

First of all, I would be interested in knowing what a sapper was doing on board one of our subs in the North Atlantic.  A good example of media ignorance (not stupidity or bias, but ignorance of their basic topic). The Cross was essentially intended to acknowledge the loss of those dying in...

ER Campbell - With respect, your last typifies the Bytown Myopia that brought us such laughs as ‘soft power’.  ‘Blame it all on the whites’ is so convenient, so PC, so easy - and, like so many generalizations, so misleading, so skewed, so stale. It's been what, 14 or 15 years since the ANC was...

For a while, Geo, for a while...

Damfino - my Arabic is rather limited.

Well, that says a lot without really saying very much, frankly.

Good for you and good for them.  Hopefully they will listen more to well-reasoned letters such as yours than to the whine-grams from some others.

At least until recently, the plan was to have enough BBQ fixin's for everybody to have one or two during their tour.  Actual BBQs and tools were also obtained and sent out to at least some of the FOBs. The optics certainly suck but I suspect there may be a bit more to it than what appears on...

An interesting link from the 2 June issue of The New Yorker on history of and dissent within the jihadist movement: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/02/080602fa_fact_wright.

Here we go... Bomb hits Pakistan Danish embassy The blast damaged the embassy and nearby vehicles At least six people have been killed and 30 injured in a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. An embassy worker was among the dead and three were hurt but...

Maybe they were.  The article does say others countries had been asked first. On the other hand, the UN wanted a francophone, which makes sense as the Congo was a Belgian colony and presumably French is still spoken there.  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, S Africa, Nepal and Uruguay would likely...

Another thread was asking if the press was Canada's 'fifth column'.  The Star's loaded language headline was the first thing I noted.  "Spurns," indeed. As to the Congo, MONUC may just be unfixable. You'll note that several other nations turned it down first.

It's context, always context.  In a weak moment, I rewatched Val Kilmer in Top Secret last night:  "Ve found your manager impaled on a curious electrical implement. Ve did vat ve could, but it took our surgeons two hours to get the smile off his face."

There are some, to be sure, with an agenda.  Then there are others with a very open, realistic, hard-nosed attitude; their stick normally comes out pretty pro-Army and we owe them a lot for the very positive opinion of the CF most people in Canada now have. In the middle are the rest of them...

MarkOttawa - not sure what your point is in posting these articles. Pls explain. George Wallace - I believe that the media have the responsibility to both inform and  (as you would put it) 'incite'.  That's what editorials are - opinions intended to sway public opinion.  That's why the print...

The sad reality is that you could cure air pollution in every province for a total of $5 and there would be somebody out there objecting. VIA did a nice thing. True, it is not going to reach everybody in the target audience, but it will be open to most of them.  True, it's not...

I know what you are trying to say and I understand it. I cannot say that I fully agree with it, however.  The general filter you propose is probably as good as one can get, but it still disturbs me. There is a difference between urging somebody to commit a crime and supporting a highly unpopular...

One thing I will admit puzzles me.  At the Nuremberg trials, the International Military Tribunal (essentially the court) declared certain groups or organizations to be criminal organizations.  Examples of these included the Gestapo, the SD, etc.  This gave member states the right to try...

dglad - I understand where you are coming from.  I will - of course! - obey the law. That doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with the interpretations put on it by people in air-conditioned offices thousands of miles away.  As to Taliban status, engaging in open combat is just one of the...

Oldsoldier - I think I said quite clearly that I approved of this particular woman being taken to court. Hand me the lever; I'll throw the trap, OK?  Incitement to crime is wrong and nobody denies that. That particular action is indeed over the line. On the other hand, merely stating on the...