War is a team sport

It’s a sport, war is! That’s what Stephen M Saideman, director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network, opines in todays Globe and Mail. Not just any sport, but a team sport. Perhaps a little more deadly than football or hockey, but a team sport none the less. And just like on any sports team, a military is only as good as its weakest link, which is why diversity is so important, because diversity is our strength. That’s what allows us to excel in the big games, like Passchendaele, where the score was over 800,000 dead, or Hiroshima, which to this day holds the War Sports Hall of Fame record for number of civilians incinerated in a single day. Addressing the recruitment challenges facing the Canadian Armed Forces, this expert is confident that once the CAF remakes the Forces into a properly hospitable destination for under-represented racial and gender minorities, enlistment is gonna take off! Because war is a team sport! This is par for the course for the war-mongering propaganda outlet that David Thomson’s pet paper has become. David Thomson, 3rd Baron of Fleet, is a hereditary peer and in the top couple of dozen on Forbes billionaire list. There’s not a President or Prime Minister anywhere in the world who doesn’t take his calls. He’s as establishment as they come, and The Globe and Mail reflects the attitudes of he and his class. War is a game our team can win.