What really bugs the Toronto Star's Haroon Siddiqui
The columnist reveals himself as a military fashionista:
I also wonder what Mr Siddiqui thinks of the image of those warm and fuzzy (check picture 2 and further) Germans, who presumably are not "Americanized"?
Update: Bruce Rolston at Flit takes on Mr Siddiqui over the latter's dishonest claim that "NATO air bombings, 2,000 last year,...killed about 4,000 people."
Mr Ralston also does some very detailed analysis showing the small scale of bombing in Afstan, especially compared to sorties flown.
The tableau we see in our media tells all: barefooted Afghans in rags staring stone-faced at the increasingly Americanized Canadian soldier in fatigues, bulletproof vest and helmet, and carrying a ferocious looking gun, finger on the trigger...Can Mr Siddiqui advise the Canadian Army what kind of non-ferocious looking gun our soldiers should have? (Actually they carry, gasp, assault rifles or carbines--a gun is an artillery piece and rather beyond the carrying capacity of most infanteers.)
I also wonder what Mr Siddiqui thinks of the image of those warm and fuzzy (check picture 2 and further) Germans, who presumably are not "Americanized"?
Update: Bruce Rolston at Flit takes on Mr Siddiqui over the latter's dishonest claim that "NATO air bombings, 2,000 last year,...killed about 4,000 people."
Mr Ralston also does some very detailed analysis showing the small scale of bombing in Afstan, especially compared to sorties flown.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 9:18 a.m.
3 Comments:
Beyond the stupidity of his "Americanized" comment, the rest of it is the worst kind of "poor, down trodden noble savages" racism.
...finger on the trigger.
Um, no. Military, police and like are trained to put the "trigger/pointing" finger across the trigger guard.
Only in the movies do you see guys running around with their fingers on the trigger.
Hope they don't trip.
The Toronto Star out to lunch? Imagine that.
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