The Hair is strapping on his six-shooter, saying goodbye to the missus and heading to meet the bad guys on the noon train. He did not wait for the House of Commons vote that might have enabled him to deputize a Mulcair or a Trudeau for some moral support. The Hair is going it alone. In one of the most ill-conceived military exercises ever attempted, the Hair is going to war with brigands.
We call them brigands for lack of a better term. If they were sailors, they would be pirates. They know no allegiance. They pose as zealots when they are an abomination.
But who are they? The few pictures they release of themselves show them to be highly trained, disciplined gunmen. Rumours say they were trained in Jordan. Why Jordan? Rumours say they were funded from Saudi Arabia. How can they capture tanks and field artillery and suddenly know how to use them? And how do they get their ammunition?
This group called an Islamic State are neither true believers nor a state. They now support themselves by selling stolen oil through Turkey and on the ransoms of careless westerners—the ones they do not decapitate. They are thieves and murderers. They desecrate mosques. They murder men, sell women into slavery and indoctrinate children. They are also highly knowledgeable of Internet social media. They know how to garner publicity in the west and threaten open societies. Yet it is unsafe for any journalists to see what is behind their bluster.
The Hair thinks these brigands are a rabble—a problem to be handled and forgotten. He fails to question their objectives. He uses their atrocities for the same propaganda objective as theirs—to draw in the infidel for another foolish crusade. It makes the Hair a fool. He has been duped and believed the propaganda of people who can disappear into the countryside.
If the Hair really wanted to accomplish something in the Middle East, Canadian Jets would target Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Take out that bastard and the battle for Syria would be easier to support.
But the Hair and his western allies will never win unless they figure out who they are supporting on the ground. Air superiority is a waste of time if you do not understand the ground game that you are playing.
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