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Posted by "Ian McGregor" <imcgrego@hotmail.com> on Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:44:23 -0500
Last year 4 RCR and 1 H did a week long recruiting drive on the UWO Campus.
Every day that week they had a Cougar parked in the middle of the most
trafficked part of campus with a tent and recruiting stand a few feet away.
It only took a few hours for the first protester to climb up on top of the
cougar with a big sign that said "Get the Murdering Machine off my Campus."
>From that point on there was always someone not to far away with a sign
deploring how horrible it was that Canada would allow itself to have
something as evil as that tank heheh, a cougar being called a tank. It was
funny the first time I heard a reservist crewman call one a tank and it
still is, because they believe it.
I think the problem is naivety. These people have never been off Sesame St,
let alone outside North America. They don‘t seem to realise that some
nations/groups still see war through Clausewitz‘s eyes as an acceptable
means to any political end. They don‘t understand that smiles and free
flowers will not protect aid-workers in a war zone. They don‘t understand
there are many uses for the military in peaceful aid-to-the-civilpower
operations that their lives may one day depend on. And, they do not
understand that WE ARE NOT the American Army in Vietnam!
Ian McGregor
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Last year 4 RCR and 1 H did a week long recruiting drive on the UWO Campus.
Every day that week they had a Cougar parked in the middle of the most
trafficked part of campus with a tent and recruiting stand a few feet away.
It only took a few hours for the first protester to climb up on top of the
cougar with a big sign that said "Get the Murdering Machine off my Campus."
>From that point on there was always someone not to far away with a sign
deploring how horrible it was that Canada would allow itself to have
something as evil as that tank heheh, a cougar being called a tank. It was
funny the first time I heard a reservist crewman call one a tank and it
still is, because they believe it.
I think the problem is naivety. These people have never been off Sesame St,
let alone outside North America. They don‘t seem to realise that some
nations/groups still see war through Clausewitz‘s eyes as an acceptable
means to any political end. They don‘t understand that smiles and free
flowers will not protect aid-workers in a war zone. They don‘t understand
there are many uses for the military in peaceful aid-to-the-civilpower
operations that their lives may one day depend on. And, they do not
understand that WE ARE NOT the American Army in Vietnam!
Ian McGregor
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