If you don't think Canadian forces should be fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan then you have a "heart of wimp jelly", you are undermining our troops, your are shaming yourself and Canada. Or so Canada's corporate media would have you believe.
It must have been the same in the first World War, during the carnage on the Somme, when tens of thousands were being killed or wounded daily, but newspaper sales were booming, fortunes were being made in the munitions business and Horatio Bottomley was lining his pockets preaching hatred for Germany, while defrauding British soldiers. Any question as to the wisdom of continuing the fight would have marked one as a traitor, a coward, a piece of "wimp jelly."
Yet if Britain had opted for negotiations instead of carnage, not only would a substantial part of that generation of young Britons, and Canadians also, have been spared to make what might have been a more worthwhile contribution to the unfolding of the universe, but we would have been saved the disasters of the Communist Revolution -- still ongoing in China and North Korea, the rise of Hitler's Third Reich, and the Jewish Holocaust with its continuing ramifications in Palestine today.
But as Earl McRae so eloquently argues, it's better not to think than to become a piece of "wimp jelly." Well said McRaeving. Heck if people start thinking, they might understand what's going on. Then, perhaps, as Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George remarked about the first World War: "If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow." Then Lloyd George added: "But they don't know and can't know," a condition that the corpo media aim to ensure today.
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