quit the looting, eh?
This qualifies for a "what the fucking fuck," I think:SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.What on earth? Why on earth? Can anyone actually picture Canadian troops patrolling Milwaukee to quell a riot? (I guess someone needs to augment the Blackwater guys.)
If only there were some journalists left, so someone could get the story behind this one.
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posted by Chris Bray @ 11:15 AM
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I, for one, welcome our new toque-wearing overlords.
Mojo
The "One World"/NAFTA conspiracy theorists are going to go apeshit. I'm not sure they're wrong anymore...
Well, yeah. When I first found out about this one, I googled around to see what had been written about it -- and one of the very first things I read was this:
"In related news, sales of tin foil are expected to rise as news of the agreement spreads in moonbat/wingnut media. This is sure to be read as either the loss of United States sovereignty to a North American Union or the loss of Canadian sovereignty to a latter day American manifest destiny."
So it's a craaaazy, tinfoil hat-wearing behavior to believe that a formal agreement allowing foreign troops to use force against American citizens inside the United States during a period of civil unrest reflects an emerging loss of American sovereignty. If you believe that the agreement is what it manifestly is on its face, you are a conspiracy theorist.
A crowd has gathered, and someone is firing a gun into that crowd, and people are falling as bullets rip through flesh. And somebody says, "hey, they're shooting at us!" And the rest of the crowd circles their temples with their index fingers and whispers cuckoo, 'cause this guy's just such an oooobvious nutjob.
As the indispensable Jeff Huber just wrote, "I’ve said more than once that America’s most profound strategic casualty in the woebegone war on terror has been its information environment."
On a positive note, Canadians are quite polite.
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