With Alex Pierson on “On Point” I discuss the brittleness behind the brutality in China’s crackdown on Hong Kong protestors.
In my latest National Post column I say our government’s mealy-mouthed equivocation on the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong makes a mockery of the notion that Canada is “back”.
On Tuesday I did an interview with Bridge City News about my Loonie Politics column on Canada’s lack of urgency in replacing obsolete CF-18 fighter planes.
Here’s a long-overdue link to a talk I gave at RCMI in March on how Canada’s traditional neglect of national security is even more dangerous than usual in a high-tech world.
“The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.”
Confederate General Richard Ewell quoted in James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War & Reconstruction
In my latest Loonie Politics column I warn that the British are trying to police the Persian Gulf with a navy they don’t have.
“As no one ever reads history, it was natural enough that there should be a great deal of disappointment, and a great deal of astonishment.”
Hugh Walpole, “Major Wilbraham,” in Chancellor Press Great Ghost Stories [the specific focus of the disappointment is with the immediate results of the end of World War I]