Steynianism 82

Earn This

In a tiny way, those of us blogging against Jihadism and self-defeat on the home front are engaged in the world-wide religious war. But there are other Canadian citizens– men and women– who are fighting that same war on the ground in Afghanistan, and willing to lay their lives down for all of us, our way of life, all that we are supposed to discount and devalue in the interests of multi-culti tolerance.

The new book Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army, by Globe & Mail reporter Christie Blatchford made this reader weep, give thanks, and – as each page passed – to be a prouder and ever more grateful Canadian. Blatch also got in trouble in 2006 on the pandering of Canadian authorities in the face of Canadian Jihadism for her article ‘Ignoring the biggest elephant in the room‘.

While too many of our chattering and politico class are running for metaphorical safety and waving the white ‘mostly harmless’ flag, some of our bravest and best– full time and reservist– are running into danger, towards the fighting, because they understand what’s at stake in the current conflict: everything.