EvanL
02-20-2004, 12:27 PM
'Bozos' blamed
Killed army, author says
By CP
OTTAWA -- Historian Jack Granatstein spreads the blame widely in answering the title question of his new book: Who Killed the Canadian Military? Two generations of politicians and a complacent electorate have left the Canadian Forces a decrepit, dispirited group and it will take years and billions of dollars to rebuild them, Granatstein writes.
His 245-page, self-described polemic lays out an indictment of years of neglect and misunderstanding.
Unlike many critics, who tend to focus much of the blame for military decay on Pierre Trudeau and his successors as prime minister, Granatstein reaches much farther back. He goes all the way to John Diefenbaker and then castigates each successive prime minister.
"We're dealing with a succession of catastrophes here, beginning in about 1960 and rolling through to the present," he said in an interview.
"The point of my book is to say you get what you pay for," he said. "The real problem is the political leaders ... and the real problem is the people of Canada keep electing those bozos to office."
The Moral of this article is...... Do not vote Liberal!
Killed army, author says
By CP
OTTAWA -- Historian Jack Granatstein spreads the blame widely in answering the title question of his new book: Who Killed the Canadian Military? Two generations of politicians and a complacent electorate have left the Canadian Forces a decrepit, dispirited group and it will take years and billions of dollars to rebuild them, Granatstein writes.
His 245-page, self-described polemic lays out an indictment of years of neglect and misunderstanding.
Unlike many critics, who tend to focus much of the blame for military decay on Pierre Trudeau and his successors as prime minister, Granatstein reaches much farther back. He goes all the way to John Diefenbaker and then castigates each successive prime minister.
"We're dealing with a succession of catastrophes here, beginning in about 1960 and rolling through to the present," he said in an interview.
"The point of my book is to say you get what you pay for," he said. "The real problem is the political leaders ... and the real problem is the people of Canada keep electing those bozos to office."
The Moral of this article is...... Do not vote Liberal!