cormacobear
14th January 2007, 21:17
Canadian Arms Manufacturers profiteering from the war in Iraq, is the greatest security risk this country has faced in decades. According to the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries reports that 3.5 billion dollars in arms sales to the United States occurred last year. With the inevitable result that weapons we build and provide are used in Iraq, a war we declared we do not support. This inevitably leaves the question of ‘Do they mind?’ one of particular relevance.
Iraq has become the rallying point for radical muslims from around the world, and the ultimate training ground for hundreds of thousands of native Iraqi’s and foreign fighters of extraction from Canada and Britain, among the more widely acknowledged Arab nations. While these men remain in Iraq they pose little threat to Canadians on Canadian soil, they cannot however remain in Iraq indefinitely. As these experts in guerrilla tactics and urban warfare bring their veteran abilities back to their individual countries or other points of Muslim world conflict Canadians will inevitably die. Our exposure in Afghanistan and our complicity in arming the US will highlight us for attacks whether by Iraq trained terrorists or just as likely attacks by muslim Canadians who have been radicalised by the war in Iraq.
Serious and immediate efforts to stem the flow of Canadian arms to Iraq through trade with America must immediately be enacted by the Canadian government in order to protect our national security and limit our exposure to the inevitable blowback of an unidentified global army targeting those complicit in Bush’s war on terror. This action will further enhance our international credibility and provide maximum global political credit for a cost we must pay anyway if we hope to protect Canadian citizens. Just as weapons sales used in East Timor will always bite our heels only positive actions where our actions match our rhetoric can regain any ground in international diplomatic institutions.
Iraq has become the rallying point for radical muslims from around the world, and the ultimate training ground for hundreds of thousands of native Iraqi’s and foreign fighters of extraction from Canada and Britain, among the more widely acknowledged Arab nations. While these men remain in Iraq they pose little threat to Canadians on Canadian soil, they cannot however remain in Iraq indefinitely. As these experts in guerrilla tactics and urban warfare bring their veteran abilities back to their individual countries or other points of Muslim world conflict Canadians will inevitably die. Our exposure in Afghanistan and our complicity in arming the US will highlight us for attacks whether by Iraq trained terrorists or just as likely attacks by muslim Canadians who have been radicalised by the war in Iraq.
Serious and immediate efforts to stem the flow of Canadian arms to Iraq through trade with America must immediately be enacted by the Canadian government in order to protect our national security and limit our exposure to the inevitable blowback of an unidentified global army targeting those complicit in Bush’s war on terror. This action will further enhance our international credibility and provide maximum global political credit for a cost we must pay anyway if we hope to protect Canadian citizens. Just as weapons sales used in East Timor will always bite our heels only positive actions where our actions match our rhetoric can regain any ground in international diplomatic institutions.