Mindemoya lawyer sharpens prognostications on Liberal security plans
To the Expositor:
Re: Increased terror threat
1 don’t like to say “I told you so,” but I told you so.
Since I informed your readers in these pages that there was ‘real evil’ out there in this world (Manitoulin Expositor — October 28, 2015) that Canada’s new Liberal Government and its foreign policy should help guard against, let’s take stock.
We’ve had the explosion of the Russian airliner over Egyptian airspace on October 31, 2015, now confirmed as an act of terrorism. Secondly—and most important—we’ve had the heinous Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris, France on November 13, 2015. Thirdly, we’ve had the terrorist related mass shootings in San Bernardino, California just last Wednesday.
Hey, if I were a professional soothsayer, I’d be batting for the fence right now.
But, aah shucks, who am I to say what represents pure evil? I’m just a fearmongering old white guy. Perhaps these events can be given an upbeat post-modernist interpretation.
Maybe they are just part of what Mr. Epstein from Kagawong told you in these pages earlier this fall about how Canada is entering upon “a new age of enlightenment.” After all, tut tut, we mustn’t be judgmental.
How ironic that the editorial in The Manitoulin Expositor last week dealt with climate change, and the newspaper was hitting the streets about the same time Wednesday morning as the husband and wife tag team started their ISIS inspired shooting spree in San Bernardino.
Sorry folks: climate change is small beer compared to terrorism, when judging the most important problem facing mankind or planet earth—contrary to what Barak Obama said in his State of the Union address in January, 2015. Actually, the greatest threat is nuclear weapons—or weapons of mass destruction in general—in the hands of third world crackpots, whether they be rogue nation states like North Korea or Iran, or NGO terrorist organizations like ISIS or Al Qaeda.
In 1985 Ronald Reagan raised the hackles of the lefty-lib crowd when he called these types “third world looney-toons.” Mr. Reagan—God rest your soul—you were being too kind when you called them that.
How long is it going to be before the terrorists graduate from mass shootings in urban areas with AK-47 assault rifles, to using a suicide bomber to detonate a brief case size nuclear device when they are walking through Time Square in New York, or Trafalgar Square in London?
Do you really think the recent accord signed by Iran is going to stop them from continuing to develop the technology to build delivery systems for sending nuclear weapons toward Israel or Europe? Get real. The thing about rocket science now is that—figuratively speaking—it’s not rocket science anymore. Even a primitive backward country like North Korea can test fire ballistic missiles out into the ocean, right over Japanese airspace. All you have to do is equip the missile with a nuclear warhead, and bingo. Not good.
Memo to Justin Trudeau and Barak Obama: It’s fourth down and long. This is no time to punt.
Those two would make a good pair. Obama at least likes to talk tough, as he did in his address to the nation this past Sunday night. He makes it sound like he is going to do a ‘dagger thrust’ at the heart of ISIS. Knowing Obama, it will be more like a ‘butter knife.’
Here is a man—the president of the United States—who cannot even bring himself to utter the words “radical Islam.” He prefers to call it “political extremism.” Here is a man who cannot bring himself to use the term “Western Civilization” (not politically correct). A hundred years from now, professional historians will rank the Obama presidency right down there with that of Jimmy Carter. You read it here first.
I was so relieved this past week to see that David Cameron, the Prime Minister of Britain, was able to convince the British Parliament to vote in favour of joining the coalition air strikes against ISIS in the Middle East. Thank goodness somebody in the anglosphere is going to step up and help do some heavy lifting, just as the new Liberal government in Canada will soon withdraw our fighter planes from the fray.
President Hollande of France was right to say this is a war. Even Obama used the word ‘war’ on Sunday night, and rightly so. It is not primarily an issue of criminal law.
What is Justin Trudeau’s strategy to deal with the increased terror threat? Rainbows and unicorns? Give them a group hug? Instead of going around with his ‘sunny ways,’ he should be responding with an even more famous line from Sir Wilfred Laurier’s lexicon as the First World War was breaking out: “Aye, ready, Aye.”
Brad Middleton
Evansville
