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Aside from the Israeli capital issue what has he actually accomplished?

By all means the Turks should be called out for the kurds and Armenia but I'm not sure what that has to do with the topic at hand. As for the rest, if the US wants Arab allies than continually pissing them off isn't in that interest. Hence the comment about what Trump's actual strategic goal...

At what cost though? If he was simply trying to "be a bro" than there are much less permanent means of doing so that wouldn't throw regional allies (jordan) under the bus. Particularly if it's to counteract a non binding resolution that at the end of the day doesn't matter. I legitimately hope...

So, what is his intent for foreign policy in the middle east then if not a golf course? Moving the capital to Jerusalem does nothing but chew up political capital for precious little actual output. So, was the move to move the process forward or to destroy it completely? The question of...

To play devil's advocate somewhat- does saying that a veteran shouldn't be entitled to 100%/90%/80%, etc recovery of wages for their lifetime necessarily equal a lack of compassion or empathy? The reality is that the government needs to come out and make a bold statement about what, as you say...

I dont think that anyone is saying that you can't be "Canadian, white, proud, and patriotic" what I think they're saying is that if you want to be a member of le meute do so outside of the CAF. The CAF, after all, isn't a right- like any other employer.

Why the eye roll? The CAF should absolutely stand for all of those things for two reasons- first, our society does and we represent them not vice versa. Second, we want the best soldiers and that includes all those groups.

Bit of a necro-post, but the RMC pers I talked to was one of the organizers. What she told me was that there was in fact a mix of males and females with the third year session being the only one which really had a larger percentage of females than males (partially because by that point people...

You clearly hang out with either very privileged people or people who purchase wrinkle free pants and shirts. I've met many people in the military with so few life skills that I wonder how they survive and had a Sgt once who had such poor eating and life habits that I felt bad when he was...

1. In terms of the former, the society feeding a breadth of pers to the army, the only means to do that would be through conscription. If you read the links I posted, or many of the others that are of the same "military-civilian divide" the main premise of many is that a key drawback of the...

If the act was just but the "optics appear bad" than is the fault with the person who did nothing wrong or the one who doesn't understand the process well enough to understand it? I dont see any reason why someone who did nothing wrong would need to justify themselves to someone who doesn't...

I think that the recruiting and RMC issue are one and the same. Having the future leader's segregated at a young age and not largely involved in the larger mosaic of society can be seen as a detriment to their personal development of people. However, as I noted, the reverse is also true- not...

I believe that life experience, particularly life experience within the culture and society is neccessaryparticularly for a career military person and that a lack of understanding of the society one lives in can have significant issues for the organization. Where this becomes an issue is in the...

An interesting question. Can someone without experience outside the CAF, particularly RMC grads who may never have even worked a civilian job, be transformational? Does this then have the potential to add to organizational issues such as op honour? If I remember correctly there were issues with...

I appreciate you note the advantages are beaurocratic but I would add careerist as a better descriptor. Completing OPMEs and having a french profile only benefit the individual and not the larger force. If there is no clear stat showing that having RMC actually improves leadership or military...

Fixed that for you. I stand by my stance that Trump's administration is the political equivalent of a garbage fire. His list of actual accomplishments 1 year after the election is shockingly low, including failures to amend Obamacare, no border wall, and an order for the USN to increase coal...

This is a weak argument. Drinking and driving is against the law, so if there is a way to better enforce the law, why wouldn't we, as a society, want that? Unless you believe that people killed by drunk drivers is just something we should accept for "reasons"....  There is no valid reason why...

Agree. I would also support having breathalyzers on all cars to avoid such things (if it were to ever be feasible) for the same reasons. The reality is that as a society we "should" be attempting to do what is in the social interest. As there is no real need for private citizens to own...

Seems as though there are a lot of "snowflakes" on the right too... weird

I sense a red herring inbound.... yes, I drink alcohol. But if I learned that someone took beer and killed 58 people and wounded 500 with it at a concert than I'd probably reconsider. Drinking alcohol is a personal choice that can't harm other people (directly). Being shot by a 65 year old man...