Oldtimer said:
Big Brother US wouldn't allow anyone to invade you :wink:
I won't argue that the US would be one of the first to jump in to defend Canada, should we ever be invaded, but don't let that go to your head. You know as well as I do that the US's role of protector of freedom and defenders of Canada is self-appointed. Canada has never requested the assistance of any country, nor will we ever have to.
And you'd best check on your facts a little more closely. The 2000 troops we sent were all that we could SPARE (as opposed to your line of thinking that that is all we have) as we have troops all over the world in UN peacekeeping roles, not to mention the 7 or 8000 sailors we have in Med, providing blockade service for your own war effort over there. When we wouldn't declare war after your 9/11 attack (which I think was a mistake), American military men immediately went on record stating that Canada was providing as many men as all the other paper tigers combined, including the British, even though there was no government support voiced. The point our government was trying to make was why declare war if you aren't going to send any troops in? Like I said, I think it was a mistake not to voice support directly, but we still had more troops helping than all your other supporters combined.
As for Cuba, does the Bay of Pigs ring a bell? Perhaps if the CIA had done what they said they were going to, we wouldn't have had to worry about those Russian ICBMs. By the way, those ICBMs? 2000 mile range, but they wouldn't have hit any target in Canada due to poor guidance and once off-target, they disarmed. Canada wasn't even the least bit threatened by them.
And onto the enhanced security at airports now. Those measures have been put in place along ALL your borders because every last one of the 9/11 terrorists went through the US first, before ever entering Canada.
And as far as the markets go, we'd be selling into every single market that we are right now, whether the US saved democracy or not. Hell, before the breakup of the USSR, they were one of our biggest customers.
And onto the DEW line. That line provides NO benefit to most of Canada, as we wouldn't recieve enough warning time from it. So Canadian taxpayers shelled out bucks to protect your country, and a small chunk of southern Ontario.
So OT, I have many friends in the US, and I respect much of what your country has accomplished both within its own borders and outside those borders, but when your patriotism includes insulting my own country, you can take your patriotism and blow it out your ass.
And theres a few facts for you.
Rod