Incompetent political leadership is destroying the Canadian Armed Forces

I felt sorry for Wayne Eyre today, the "acting" head of the CAF. 

The reason he's "acting" is because everybody above him has been sidelined by sexual harassment allegations. Yup, it's a horny bunch there in the Officer Corps, and if you're accused of an unsolicited crotch-grab during basic training in 1982, well, you can kiss your career and your reputation goodbye forty years of exemplary service later. The CAF doesn't want to be associated with filth like you.

Wonder what that does for morale?

We've got some screwed up priorities in this country. The whole point of "armed forces" is these are the folks you train to kill our enemies. You're training killers, but in Canada, those killers you train must always treat their fellow humans with utmost respect and sensitivity at all times, at least until you have to kill them.

 So mind the micro-aggressions, and please, no crotch grabbing.

General Eyre was trotted out today to take the fall for Canada's dismal performance in looking after our Afghan collaborators, because neither Justin or Sajjan have the balls to take ownership of their incompetence. 

Eyre went out of his way to blame the Taliban.

Eyre and every other officer in the CAF knows that's not true. Canadian operations in-country ended seven years ago. Trudeau and Sajjan have held the reins for the last five. The US announced a complete US-NATO withdrawal 18 months ago. We had more than enough time to do the right thing by the Afghans who risked their lives to ally with us. 

Blaming the Taliban for a debacle festering for five years under their watch is disingenuous, to say the least. 

Would the Prime Minister treat a white cabinet minister like this?

PM Chrystia Freeland and her front man Justin today reprimanded the country's top military officer for some personnel decisions arising out of the never-ending Canadian Forces sexual harassment scandal.

Normally that should be the job of the Defence Minister, Harjit Sajjan. He's the guy who helped Justin burnish his bona fides by becoming our first Defence Minister to sport a turban. Just within the past week Justin had assured the public he maintains full confidence in the man.

Alas, that was before Chrystia, aka Justin's brain, clued him in as to which way the winds of political correctitude were blowing. As in, look chump, a vagina trumps a turban any day. If anyone knows those fickle winds it's Chrystia. When making a speech about Canada's threat horizon as Foreign Minister, she listed "incels" right alongside Putin, commies, and terrorists. You'd have be among the PC cognoscenti for that to happen. 

As for Sajjan, once both the PM and the deputy PM talk for you in the media, they really aren't that into you anymore. Do the honourable thing and resign.

Canadian military announces "Operation Absence"

Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan announced yesterday that our peacekeeping mission to Mali, Operation Presence, will continue indefinitely.

The mission, begun a year ago, saw 250 CF personnel and Canada's entire fleet of eight helicopters in the African country to deliver peace, development, and prosperity.

CF spokesperson Colonel Wanda Dunkelwasser elaborated on Sajjan's announcement in a media backgrounder; "Our analysts have determined that over the past year, our contribution to bringing peace, development, and prosperity to Mali has been precisely zilch. Nada. Bupkis. We subsequently further determined that we could find considerable efficiencies in our peacekeeping mission by withdrawing our personnel and our helicopters. Going forward, our peacekeeping mission will be known as Operation Absence."

On the same day that Minister Sajjan was updating the public on our peacekeeping mission, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland shocked the UN by revealing that "Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, 'incels,' nativists, and radical anti-globalists" threaten the stability of the civilized world.

Alas, she was not referring to those smelly, basement-dwelling, maladapted, twenty-somethings playing kill-em-all video games eighteen hours a day. In her leadership role with the Lima Group, working to free Venezuelan women and girls and resources from the grip of their elected dictator, Ms. Freeland has gained invaluable insights into the psyches of white supremacists like her good friends, Mikes Pence and Pompeo.

When Freeland talks Neo-Nazis, we'd do well to pay attention.

Canada looking to shoulder bigger share of White Man's Burden

According to the lead story on the front page of my Globe and Mail today, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is off on an eight-day fact-finding mission over in the Dark Continent. I know, you can probably find out all the facts you'd ever need from the comfort and safety of your keyboard, but as we've noted before, Mr. Sajjan is a hands-on kinda guy, so lets cut him some slack.

Purpose of the mission? To find out where and how Canada can contribute a military presence to buff up its international brand. Writer Steven Chase points out that Canada's participation in "peace-keeping" missions has pretty much gone to nothing over the past twenty-five years, and now that we've got that spunky pothead Justin at the helm, we want the world to know WE'RE BACK!!!

And what better venue to burnish the brand than the Dark Continent? Just check out the Defence Minister's itinerary:

• Congo
• Mali
• Central African Republic
• Uganda
• Tanzania
• Kenya

In every case, a country where the savages are tearing apart their fellow savages or the savages next door, or even the savages two or three doors over! One thing that's for sure is that the savages need intervention from the Nations of Virtue in order to keep them from one another's throats, and what better intervenor could there possibly be than the most virtuous of the Nations of Virtue, Canada?

And if I'm not mistaken, every one of those benighted nations is host to one or more Canadian mining companies, busily providing development for the local ingrates with absolutely no thanks whatsoever. In fact, there is a wide swath of opinion in the Dark Continent that holds Western promises of "development" are just a cover for a loot-and-plunder agenda!

Who can even imagine such a thing?

The fact that Canada would seek out such a mission in the face of that kind of rancid cynicism speaks volumes about our altruism. Yup, we're gonna put troops on the ground and restore law and order whether the savages appreciate it or not. 

And, just between me and you, don't be surprised if our "peacekeepers" end up based in close proximity to our mining interests.

Real reason Canada snubbed at anti-Muslim conclave of Nations of Virtue

Ya, I get he's not a Muslim, but nevertheless he is a victim of towellerphobia..

Canada's new Minister of Defense does sport a turban...

And that's the REAL reason why Canada was not invited to the very important meeting of the Nations of Virtue on how best to continue the totally ineffectual and entirely illegal bombing of Islamic State.

Towellerphobia.

CANADA SNUBBED!!!

Canadian media across the board, from the drooling knuckle-draggers at the Sun to the pinkos at the Star, are aghast that our new badass Minister of Defence, the nattily turbaned Harjit Sajjan, was not extended an invite to today's conflab of the anti-ISIS coalition!

They allege with one voice that this can only be due to POTHEAD's promise to end our participation in the illegal bombing of Syria and Iraq, led as always by our ally the USA, which leads the world in illegal bombing missions against sovereign nations.

Mainly Muslim sovereign nations, by some fluke of happenstance...

And our fourth estate is unanimous in declaring this a bad thing?

Frankly, I'm hoping the Big Dog and the Me-Too nations kick us out of the bully-boy club altogether. No more NATO. No more F-35 bullshit where we spend hundreds of billions for the sake of "interoperability" with the rest of the war criminals.

Let's make Canada an independent country again!

Old stock Canadians shocked as guy in turban becomes Minister of Defence

The Pothead unveiled his cabinet today, and the tut-tutting in your finer old stock neighbourhoods could be heard even here on the wrong side of the tracks.

A native woman as Minister of Justice and Attorney General? Get outta here! After the decade of palpable disrespect Canada's native people endured under Harper, I'm guessing this is Trudeau's way of signalling a new attitude in Ottawa.

And get a load of our new Minister of Defence:



No, this ain't Harvit Sajjan's Halloween kit; it's his "I did three tours in Afghanistan" kit. Yes, we've certainly had CF guys as Minister of Defence before, but not a guy with serious time at the pointy end. This is a man whose military career was spent firing off bullets, not memos.

Overall, the think tank here at Falling Downs gives the Pothead's first cabinet a thumbs up. Let's hope they can turn this ship around...