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(1) Please read the Chilcott Report. (2) Immigration and jets, nothing. The West again strode in, took sides, drew new borders to protect its interests, and now trying to disentangle because of the costs, Obama leading because the country voted to get the hell outta there.

This illustrates one of your main problems. Lack of historical knowledge. By the time the CF-105 was developed it was already obsolete. It was designed to intercept Soviet Bear and Bison bombers, just like the US Century Series. Not much use in the ICBM Age, and at a clear disadvantage in a dogfight. The US found this out the hard way in Vietnam.

Don't feel bad, you're not the only one ignorant of History.

George W. Bush screwed up the balance of power in the Middle East when he took out Hussein.

Several years, thousands of casualties and trillions of dollars later he got the lid back on Iraq. At the end of Bush's term more people were being murdered in Chicago's gangland than soldiers killed in Iraq.

Obama abandoned Iraq. The lid came off. ISIS bubbled out and then took vast swaths of Iraq and Syria.

Obama and Hillary then made the same mistake in Libya that George W. Bush made in Iraq. ISIS is a major player and Libya, if not a failed state, is just a degree or two this side of it.

As a consequence of the three failed states refugees from Syria, Iraq, and North Africa flooded Turkey, Greece, and Italy. ISIS' propaganda, generated from their state, radicalized many young Western Muslims, giving us terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, San Bernadino, Orlando etc...

Obama and his former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, are responsible for the current crappy state of affairs in the Middle East and for the radical Islamics' terrorist attacks of the last couple of years.

On behalf of some other Canadians with a different perspective, please let me apologize for King's blather on this subject. There is a distinct and quite common type of Canadian, usually residing in Ontario or points east, and often of the liberal persuasion, who have an abiding inferiority complex about their country and themselves. And, as a result, they spend an inordinate amount of time and energy touting our accomplishments on the world stage, real and imagined.

They are unwilling to acknowledge that we are a small to middling country (population and economic might, not geography) with the corresponding level of success on the international stage. Constantly trying to compete with the US, a nation of 10 time the population and an economy that ranges between 15 and 20 times larger, they exaggerate the importance our perfectly fine achievements and worse, tout them all the time. Much like an insecure child might.

While I know King has many fine qualities, his perspective of and defense of our national achievements is wildly out of proportion to the actuality of our country.

Liberal Canadians like to tout our diplomatic "soft power" as though we actually count for something in world politics. It would be laughable if it hadn't infected so many Canadians and given them delusions of grandeur and importance for the country that does not exist.

James, I thought you were over it: The hurt with last fall's federal conservative defeat, partly and significantly because the Conservative party within eight years removed Canada as a respected and influential middle power to what it is today.

The acclaimed reputation and contribution of successions of conservative and liberal governments to reason at home and diplomacy in world affairs were sacrificed to one-man rule that shred it all at the altar of a skewed ideology.

Your party now is looking to a Nova Scotian to make Canada great again!

King, are you telling us that you are running for Prime Minister?

With the endorsement of your imaginary pals, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, you should be a shoo-in.

This is so very interesting... seeing you making repeated posts that have absolutely nothing to do with double guns after you so frequently whined about politics on the main Double-Gun forum, and heartily encouraged Dave to keep Misfires inactive.

What a hypocritical fraud!

Hahahaha. Good one King. A predictable response although let me say mine are predictable as well. Just more grounded in reality and less of a "wishful thinking" kind of an outlook.

The Muse of Nova Scotia apparently missed all of the Islamic extremist attacks that were going on long before Bush and Blair led the coalition to topple Saddam Hussein. In his zeal to blame Bush and Republicans, King Brown just wants all of you to forget the attacks on the Khobar Towers, the U.S.S. Cole, Pan Am Flight 103, the 1998 attacks on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and that little attack on 9-11 that killed almost 3000 Americans. Here's a few more:

http://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-...-bin-laden.html

He hasn't forgotten history Ken. He's just a typical Liberal Left fraud... a fraud who cried about Misfires, and who now is bringing it back to the Double Gun forum.

Now I have to get a little more serious.

The single most influential (to our everlasting shame) post war Prime Minister was Pierre Trudeau. A man who never met a murdering socialist dictator he didn't love. Middle power my ass. We have spent decades puffing out our little chests, strutting around like little poppinjays, reveling in our own importance when in Canada and having our asses handed to us when abroad. I can do without the diplomatic skills of that Castro/Nazi/Mao loving blight on our country and all the liberal sycophants who got weak in the knees when he looked their way. (Looking at you King!)

Oh wait, King cries! What about good old Nobel winner Pearson, the King of soft dick, I mean soft power. Whose Nobel Prize winning contribution was UN Peacekeepers, an utterly discredited program that in most cases is just ineffectual and often prolongs conflicts into decades long fights by never allowing a resolution.

Or Mulroney, the king of bags of money in Swiss hotel rooms.

Harper was the problem? Let see, he had a principled approach to oppressive regimes like China. And when he did, the left was outraged. Now that he is gone, the left is outraged by the atrocities committed by the Chinese government and asks why we put up with it and engage with those people.

Typically, you want to have your cake and eat it too. The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.