Imagine That Canada Attacked U.S.

Your comparison is inaccurate.

We have no small country near us that is vastly inferior to us in terms of military capability.

And you ignore the fact that Israel is bombing a country into the stone age for abducting two soldiers.

The response to this bombing was the rockets.

Now Israel and Lebanon are in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. If we are lucky this will end with Israel occupying Lebanon. If we are not, Israel will use this conflict as a pretext to staring a nuclear war in the middle east.

Israel has a long history of using massive retaliation against provoked defense. They captured the Golan Heights from the Syrians by repeatedly driving farm tractors into Syrian territory until the Syrians shot at it. Then they responded with heavy artillery, tanks, aircraft and soldiers taking ground. This latest round is classic Israeli militarism, supported fully by the United States.

There is no comparison between Israel and Canada. We have almost no military to speak of, no mandatory draft, no hatred of arabs. We got our country peacfully. We have no dream of a Greater Canada we should all aspire to.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

If this did happen, unlike Lebanon, the USA would have a bit more than just some ancient artillery and sticks and stones to defend themselves with.

And unlike Israel, Canada does not have state of the art military hardware.

<p>Sergeant,</p> <p>given that this came from a newspaper in Ohio, my guess is that the intended analogy was the USA as Israël and Canada as Lebanon.</p><p>---<br>Shatter your ideals upon the rock of Truth.<br />
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— The Divine Symphony, by Inayat Khan<br />

This also requires that the reader believe the Israeli tale that Hezbolla entered Israel, killed 8 and abducted 2. That is the story going around the north american press, but it doesn't seem to be the truth.

Non US controlled press are reporting that the Israelis were in Lebanon when they were captured. The 8 dead were not from Hezbolla fighting them, but from a tank hitting a landmine.

So the question is, do you believe the Israeli story or the Lebanese story?

Considering that Israel bombed nightclubs in Europe - their supposed allies, and framed the Arabs for it (Regan bombed Libya and killed Quadaffi's(sp?) daugher over it) I have a hard time believing anything Israel says.

Ok, sure, let's look at that. So in 1982, the US invaded Canada. We all still remember that time. The world pretty much stood by while the M-1 panzers rumbed down Bloor street and the F-15 strike eagles bombed our airports, bridges, apartment buildings to scrap. We resisted them as best we could, with guerrilla tactics, fighting them street by street, house to house, drawing the M-1's into urban areas where we could ambush them from close range and drop molotov cocktails on them.

In one particularly shocking act of barbarism, a peaceful Canadian Christian (for this analogy to work, we have to also introduce that Canada has a distinctly different religion than the US) religious procession was driven over, literally, by a squadron of American tanks.

This ignited the pure hatred necessary for a new resistance group to be formed, Canuk-eh. Canuk-eh organized the remants of the Canadian military, and die-hard nationalists, into a fighting force. We began winning battles, although the loses were horrible, in the twisted metal of our ruined Canadian cities. World opinion was also turning against America, after they stood by while a pro-US hate group entered a prisoner camp near the border and massaquered hundreds of Canadian families.

The US withdrew, but no peace treaty was signed. The border would be the site of frequent raids, artillery exchanges, and firefights from then until present day, little reported in the news. Meanwhile, Canuk-eh, enjoying widespread support amongst the grateful Canadian public, would expand to include providing humanitarian support for the war ravaged Canadians.

Some Canadians living the US, who had been fighting for an enclave in US territory for years, would finally be given it. It appeared as though the US was finally turning around, but the appearance was only superficial. Many very angry US fundamentalists in this enclave were very unhappy at how the government had caved to the Canucks, and when they did finally leave the territory, they demanded the government demolish all buildings, in a scorched earth type policy remaniscent of Hitler's retreat from Russia during world war II. The Canucks inherited a smoking ruin wasteland. To make matters worse, the US frequently kept coming back in with their forces, rounding up people and torturing them. Finally some militant Canucks had had enough and abducted a US soldier. The US responded by a new full invasion of the enclave, with armoured bulldozers once again demolishing everything in sight and F-16's dropping cluster bombs on hospitals.

Back in Canada, we watched this with horror, our hatred of the US only growing. Canuk-eh decided to act, and in a small border firefight, managed to capture two US soldiers, intending to use them to force the US to withdraw from the enclave. Instead, they responded with a horrific attack, once again bombing our cities, our airports, our bridges into ruin. Canuk-eh had a large arsenal of artillery rockets they had been slowly building up over the years to keep in reserve for defense, and they made the decision to begin firing on the US.

The US was taken aback by this, and only intensified their attack, launching a full scale land invasion. They told all Canadians to flee the areas where Canuk-eh was launching rockets, then bombed any vehicles attempting to flee, as well as ambulances trying to bring aid and trucks bringing food in. Canadians were forced to cower in the underground parking garages of their condos, hoping the next ground-penetrating dp warhead was headed down the street and not at them.

The world ummmmed and aaaaahhhd and offered vague motions of distress. Great Britain heartily supported the bombing and told the world to sit back and let the US do what it wanted for a while, so they could find all those Canuk-ehs.

The problem was, to kill one Canuk-eh, the US had to kill ten innocent Canadian civilians, often small children and old people, who are more likely to be killed by indiscriminant apartment building bombing, go figure. And for every ten innocent Canadians they killed, two new Canuk-eh soldiers stood up from the rubble in their place.

And so the war rages to this day, with Canada being reduced to rubble, and support for the radical resistance fighters of Canuk-eh growing each day.

Is that the analogy you were looking for?

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

It doesn't even matter if it's true. You do not bomb a country into ruin because two of your soldiers have been held hostage. Israel used this minor incident to open a new war against Lebanon. This is payback for 1982. Just like the US government and military smouldered for years over not getting to invade Iraq during the first Gulf war. They saw their chance and they took it after 911.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

<p>I wasn’t looking for a particular analogy (and I’m not sure why you thought that I was), but I hope that you’ll consider submitting your post above to that newspaper as a letter to its editor.</p><p>---<br>Shatter your ideals upon the rock of Truth.<br />
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— The Divine Symphony, by Inayat Khan<br />