Re: Good-news, bad-news; 10th planet, protomoon or dead Earth

Scott Hedrick wrote:
"Cardman" <do-not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:olopf199i0enpcdv0nslrjih86qrgu4s15@xxxxxxxxxx

And so who neighbours Canada?


Why, Canada is *everyone's* neighbor! 

No Canada has two or three neighbors. Two or three because it depends
on how the dispute about Hans Island is sorted out. If it is declared
to be at least in part canadian then we share a border with Denmark.
Anyway, Canada fought for the liberty of Denmark during WW II and the
Danes are grateful for that and can be considered to be friendly to us,
so Canada does not need to fear anything from Denmark.

The other lesser known neighbor of Canada is France with whom we
share a few km of maritime border thanks to their St-Pierre et Miquelon
islands just south of Newfoundland. France too is grateful for us
fighting for their liberty in WW II and in their case also WW I.
So France is also friendly to Canada.

The third neighbor to Canada is the US. The US also has been attacked
and like the Danes and the French, they also asked for Canada to go
and fight for them. As we did for the French and the Danes in Europe,
we sent troops to fight for our third neighbor but this time in
Afghanistan. Unfortunately, this neighbor is not grateful for us
fighting for them, they bicker at us for not sending troops also to
Iraq and they refuse to give us back our $5 billion in illegal
tariffs they imposed on our softwood lumber etc. Nonetheless, I think
that this neighbor is also very unlikely to attack Canada militarily.

As for other countries which aren't neighbors to Canada, I think
it is extremely unlikely that they would launch a military attack
on Canada.

As soon as the Islamists who bomb TV stations for broadcasting US programs realize that they *really* come from Canada 
[snip]

Yes, that is where the real threat is. Not from neighboring or non-
neighboring countries but from organizations such as Al Qaeda. It is
quite likely that Al Qaeda will somehow attack Canada. After all
we are actively fighting them in Afghanistan. If we weren't fighting
them it would be less likely that they would attack us but the
overwhelming majority of Canadians still think that it is worth to
fight Al Qaeda even if it does increase our risk of being attacked.
What wouldn't we do for our friends in the US.


Alain Fournier

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