In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that the key to Kissinger’s diplomacy was the worldview behind it. And we’re not exactly racking up successes in such profusion that we can afford to ignore his insights.
“I began listening more carefully to what my father had to say after the Churchill speech, for my father was clear in his own mind about where his loyalties lay. Having known persecution in Poland [he was Jewish], having served with his brothers in the British Army during the First World War, and having been a fierce patriot in his land of adoption, my father was an outspoken advocate of British freedom. ‘This is the one place where people are still free,’ he would tell me. ‘If you have to choose between giving in and fighting, fight; just remember that. Fight with everything you’ve got.’”
Jack Maurice Nissen Winning the Radar War
In my latest Epoch Times column I condemn the edict that military chaplains should not pray to God rather than the state on November 11.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the latest attack on Israel exposes Hamas starkly as an offence against man and God … along with anyone that supports or excuses it, Islamic Jihad or any such genocidal antisemitic organization or government.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the decision to cut another billion dollars out of the Canadian military, and deny you’re doing it, is more proof that we are governed by profoundly unserious people.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if a typical MP could not pass a pop quiz on World War II or almost any subject, and voters and journalists don’t notice, it’s way past time we stopped letting the state run our education system.
In my latest Epoch Times column I heckle an entire Parliament full of people who didn’t know who fought who in World War II, that guests for a high-security speaker should be vetted or just about anything else.
“Those who blame everything on the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, equally miss the point: no Versailles could ‘justify’ the rise of Nazism, which had much deeper causes, as well as much shallower.”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen June 7, 2003