As a blogger I should really make more of an effort to get offended. It’s hard because I’m a surprisingly mellow person, but this commentary in the Georgia Straight actually offended me - a lot:
Support the troops. No Canadian would argue with that, except maybe the members of Vancouver’s city council.
The trick is to wait until those troops are not so young and healthy, having had enough of disabling wounds and dead bodies, and likely to come back with stress disorders that will have them using their lethal training in inappropriate ways. Then you do what Canadians always do with veterans: ignore them and hope they go away. It is not a great program, but Vancouver city council is right on it.
To council, Remembrance Day is when we trot out the aged survivors of the Second World War and use them as props in campaigns to propagate more international violence of the kind no veteran would agree to. There are fewer vets marching each year, and it’s not just because they are dying off in a demographically inevitable way.
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