Correspondence: Americans vs. Canadians, &c.
This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text. CORRESPONDENCE Our Military State Thank you for the much-needed piece by John Lehman on the...
...Additionally, reporting requirements levied on the military by Congress touch on every nuance of military life...
...The person who remains at his post during this period of U.S...
...The cost is seen in lack of spare parts and shortages in training resources at the unit level...
...JOHN DAVID MCPEAK Major, U.S...
...Well — if we maintain the current level of commitment to the crisis du jour and if we simultaneously commit to train our forces for warfare and not police actions or peacekeeping as he rightfully suggests, this will be expensive...
...BABSON DODSON Mingo Junction, Ohio December 1 9 9 8 • The American Spectator...
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...There should be less of a crisis management approach to how the military is constructed, maintained, trained, and funded...
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...Winter is coming on and contrary to what you probably believe Canadians do not hibernate in an igloo all winter...
...A nationwide metric system, when our largest trading partner is the U.S...
...Canada's bland "offends no one" committee-designed flag • Canada having no death penalty, in spite of public opinion for its reinstatement...
...ASH GOBAR Asheville, North Carolina Bottoms Up Regarding John Cony's review of Jay Van Andel's book (TAS, October 1998), I'm sure that Van Andel's motives are quite admirable and that the Canadian problems were influenced largely by anti-U.S., anti-free enterprise impulses...
...Those aboard ship are asked to pretend that pregnancy and strength differentials have zero effect on readiness...
...Money that escaped the U.S...
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...Long Beach, California John Lehman's article very accurately describes the maladies currently overtaking our military...
...However, to echo Mr...
...This is terribly difficult on young families, and there is no hope of relief...
...for generations, and like a spoiled brat, treats its parents like garbage while treating all its worthless "friends" like royalty—until, of course, it needs protection, or economic assistance...
...Very often a "foreign" writer will get something wrong, but everything was right on the nose...
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...Our best other interludes were with conservatives Joe Clark, who was thrown out of office after nine months for trying to reduce taxes and make sense out of the budget mess, and with Brian Mulroney, who set up the economy to provide the windfall that the current liberal government enjoys under the leadership of Jean Chretien....Think of Canada as a spoiled brat who has feasted off the U.S...
...LISALEE ANNE WELLS Capt., JAGC, USNR (Ret...
...Every day, they are asked by Congress, through the Department of Defense, to pretend that men and women have identical capabilities and characteristics...
...We ought to be grateful that Canadians like us as much as they do...
...all in all, Canadians are remarkably friendly toward their gigantic bedfellow...
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...Our own Pierre Trudeau as a WWII draft dodger...
...MERRILL ORNE YOUNG Surry, Virginia Heartfelt kudos from a born-and-bred Canadian "seasoned citizen...
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...The fortunes of the few "millionaire yokels" with their diamond rings and RollsRoyces are based only partly on their business expertise and dedication...
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...He is constantly gone...
...But they will always be selling more faith than soap...
...Operation tempo at the unit level is so intense that today's serviceman can scarcely take a breath...
...My desire would be that America commits to her military, just as her military has committed to her...
...Lehman laments how much of the military is engaged in bureaucratic functions...
...does is uncomfortable at best...
...Canada as a haven for U.S...
...A bureaucratic monolith is required just to survive the political climate of our nation...
...The recommended solutions that Lehman suggests require an outside force in order to be implemented...
...The ratio of rewards and benefits compared to that of just a few years ago is severely diminished...
...It has been particularly painful for me during the past few years to watch wellmeaning and dedicated male officers and enlisted struggle to ignore the realities of full gender integration in the service...
...Servicemen feel the uncertainty and indecision of our political leaders...
...The ones who do strike it rich can only do so because of the vast majority that don't...
...Granted, their pretense to general moral and political superiority over the U.S...
...Canada is the international champ of hypocrisy...
...history is subjugated to countless (re)education classes on such topics as "equal opportunity" and "sexual harassment...
...Caught between the immovable objects of political correctness and social engineering on the one hand, and the rigorous demands of multiple deployments and less operational and maintenance money on the other, the military suffers...
...What he does not articulate is that the reason much of the bureaucracy within the military exists is precisely the need to "do battle" in the Beltway...
...Here's another "startling fact...
...ROBERT BURCH Toronto, Canada How much sycophancy from Canada would Mark Falcoff consider enough...
...The liberals seem to have had a lock on "governing" this country for most of the last couple of generations...
...Mark Falcoff's Canada/Cuba article was right on the money...
...I guess my Eastern Canadian relatives were probably vacationing in some "virtual reality" Florida this spring and not the real one...
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...He is to be congratulated on cutting through all the myths about Canada — tho' even more could be said on the subject...
...The list goes on...
...But I've thought of a way to save TAS: If co-hypocrites Henry Hyde and Dan Burton achieve Clinton's ouster, then TAS can turn to writing stories about the civil war that will ensue when Americans, enraged by the Republicans usurping of their superficial right to vote, take to the streets with guns...
...Falcoff's words, we in Canada do lack a distinctive and identifiable culture...
...This, while training for war is sacrificed in order to fulfill another of the military's countless peacekeeping commitments abroad...
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...Currently, the military puts much of its operational and maintenance dollars into varied multinational deployments...
...Enforced multiculturalism, complete with a "minister for multiculturalism...
...If anything we need more humor in the winter, and what is more humorous than the Republicans trying to bring the government to a standstill over [fellatio...
...On the other hand, how would we feel if it were their stupid farmers and fishermen who were acting lawlessly towards ours and not the other way around, and we realized how little we could do about it as a nation other than protest...
...The other contributing factor is the hordes of Amway foot soldiers working for what amount to slave wages (if it were ever calculated by the hour—which it never is...
...It's very frustrating...
...He believes that the cost can remain at 2 percent of GDP...
...My own personal fear is that we will be badly mauled in a conflict before the habiliments of a "PC Military" are discarded...
...If we are to have the kind of military that is demanded by today's climate, a military that is simultaneously being deployed the world over to troubled regions and being prepared for a true military conflict, it will cost more than is being given now...
...Sleeping next to an elephant as Canada December 1998 • The American Spectator This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text...
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...JIGS GARDNER Orangedale, Nova Scotia In view of your exaggerated hostility and prejudice toward our progressive and humane neighbor Canada, and toward the "New Europe" (April issue, 1998), I demand a cancellation of my subscription to your magazine...
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...Upon reading the article, I am prompted to add my own list of Canadian foibles...
...as a way of supporting their selfesteem is irritating and not in accord with the facts...
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...That is not to say that The American Spectator is not informative...
...Again, many of our best do not stick around to see when and if things will improve...
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...For instance, having just returned from my two weeks in Las Vegas and other Nevada locations, I was not aware that Canadians can't afford to go to Florida anymore...
...Your reporters would be washing dishes in upscale restaurants, your editors would be cutting hair, and the publisher would have a lot more time and less money on his hands...
...And, many of the best and brightest exit the military in favor of something less demanding and more rewarding...
...AL WALLER via the Internet The article by Mark Falcoff in the current TAS is the very best piece I've ever seen in an American magazine on Canada...
...MORRIS KENTON Vancouver, British Columbia I was browsing in my local bookstore yesterday and came across your excellent publication...
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...songs • Our Constitution having no enshrined property rights (Tom Bethell, TAS, August 1998—please note...
...Either he is deployed or training up for a major exercise, gone to a service school or sent to some special duty...
...CORRESPONDENCE Our Military State Thank you for the much-needed piece by John Lehman on the declining state of our military ("Our Military Condition," TAS, October 1998), which was validated further by the recent colloquy between Senator McCain and the Joint Chiefs on the same subject...
...One cost Lehman doesn't mention is that which is being borne by today's serviceman...
...think of it as having Jane Fonda in office for thirtyfive years, with Jimmy Carter relieving her every once in a while...
...How does the military respond except to make bureaucrats of many of its best leaders...
...Perhaps before the next Gulf War, Madeleine Albright can convince Saddam Hussein to field an infantry that is one-third female...
...We are a test-bed for liberalism as applied to all aspects of our life...
...Now would be a good time to move your offices into a bunker, or somewhere in the side of a mountain in Colorado...
...Vietnam draft dodgers...
...I do disagree with one of the assertions Lehman makes...
...After reading a few articles I was able to determine that your magazine fills a great void that has existed in the humor section of my bookstore...
...At the risk of sounding Marxist, I must note that it is troubling to see a sales organization with such a ridiculously steep gradient of reward/outcome, out of all proportion to effort invested...
...There are at least 49 percent of the voters up here who know the meaning of friendship and are ashamed of the way Canada's liberal governments have kowtowed to every tinpot Communist dictator in the world...
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...Van Andel and DeVos are business geniuses, to be sure...
...People do not join Amway to sell soap and earn a few bucks on the side...
...I think maybe that this is one thing that unfortunately has not changed...
...They join because the vast, expertly programmed Amway propaganda machine convinces them that "anyone" can strike it rich in Amway...
...We, the military, are responding to the demands of our civilian bosses...
...Delegation to NATO Headquarters Brussels, Belgium Border Wars Mark Falcoff's cover story on the Canada-Cuba relationship was outstanding ("Northern Fidelity," TAS, October 1998...
...This is likely to take the form of some crisis where we must learn some painful historical lessons...
...Enforced "Canadian content" in broadcast music, consisting of Oscar Peterson, Anne Murray, and others performing made-in-U.S...
...TAS is just a parasitic creature, which, if it succeeds in its supposed aim of ousting the President, will find itself in the same boat as Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman after Saigon fell...
...DAVID W. WITTER Sterling, Virginia Something's Happening Here This publication would not exist without Bill Clinton...
...During the Cold War, the joke was that while the Russians had a five-year plan, the Americans had five one-year plans...
...There is a lot of Castro's money in Canadian banks...
...But then what were all those Canadians on 1-95 doing...
...freeze...
...I have always found American politics amusing but when seen through the eyes of the American right the humor just pops right out at you...
Vol. 31 • December 1998 • No. 12
