How do you do a trumpet fanfare in a headline? The Hair going to war again certainly deserves a fanfare. The poor schmuck was had. He was alternately included and ignored by the big boys and girls at the NATO meeting in Wales last week. It was Brit David Cameron, France’s François Hollande and Yankee Barack Obama who made the decisions and waved the flags. They hardly want to go to war with Vladimir Putin so they are going to beat up on the ISIS jihadist fanatics in Iraq and Syria instead.
The way that the Hair and his silly Foreign Minister were mouthing off recently about the Ukraine situation was worrying enough for Canadians, let alone our allies. It is one thing to pander for the votes of Canadians of Ukrainian heritage and an entirely different thing to go to war with Russia. Canadians will be far happier to see their troops just shooting up Arab jihadists.
But the Hair is still getting his shorts in a knot. He was slashing the Canadian military budgets to the bone in the next year to allow room for pre-election tax cuts. And here are friend Obama and other NATO heavyweights demanding he pony up more military support in the billions. They have had enough mouth and now they want money.
The best the Hair could come up with was Canada’s over-rated and over-used Joint Task Force Two (JTF2). These guys, with their purported finally-honed killing skills, are to be used as logistics support for the Kurds in Northern Iraq. JTF2 are to be deployed in Kurdistan for 30 days and then their position will be re-evaluated. They might pick up some basic Kurdish language skills in that time. As the Kurds are the only Arab troops in the Middle East to have won some battles with ISIS, this might be the best billet.
But with friends such as Cameron, Hollande and Obama, the Hair needs to re-evaluate his role on the world stage. He and his hairdresser can wing where they want but they can hardly buy friends with continual promises of non-existent financial support. Like in any Ponzi scheme, eventually somebody wants to see some cash.
Maybe the key NATO allies have finally got a clear reading on the Hair. They are treating him as a lame duck. Their people in Ottawa have a fairly accurate read on where the Hair is going after any federal election in 2015 and it will not be as prime minister.
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