My Firstborn Shall Be Called… Lewis
LGF - Canadian General: UN Observer Post Used By Hizballah
So I can’t fastforward to get you a transcript, but besides the bit that Charles found interesting:
We received emails from him a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted. Now that’s veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. And that’s a favorite trick by people who don’t have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can’t be punished for it.
There’s also a bit at the end about why Canada can’t go in as Peace Keepers (the neighbors all like to sit on their hand, no one wants the US to do it, and it can’t be the UN because that’s been proved catastrophic so many times, so it has to be Nato or at least France because they’re all that’s left but they’re sitting on their hands as well). So grab a game of Free Cell, sit back, and listen to the whole thing.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Jeeebs, your first born is gonna have a name like a Spanish king.
July 26th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Or, just let the IDF carry on doing the job. Seems a lot simpler: they have the kit on the ground, much more effective troups than any bar perhaps the UK (and possibly the US) and the determination and incentive to succeed - why not just mandate Israel with the task?
Oh - that would be too easy. And the Islamists would get crushed. So obviously that isn’t the solution.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Yeah, the ultimate peace keepers. World Peace Through Superior Firepower. As they say. I like it.
And my firstborn shall have a name like a French king. Or a Neapolitan one. Or a tsar, really.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:47 am
What if she’s a girl?
July 28th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Oh I have a couple girls names lined up as well.
Anyway think of the Spanish, they’re all Jose Maria. Just backwards.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Airam Esoj?
July 28th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
har har,
I like Spanish names, you can throw in a gals handle without handicappering your kid. Unlike a boy-dawg named Lassie.
BTW I herd recently that Jean Shepherd was the inspiration behind a Boy Named Sue, evidently Shel Silverstein(?) was a friend.
This thread kinda looking shaky.
July 30th, 2006 at 10:17 am
But Lassie was a girl.
(God I hated that show)
Didn’t you ever hear the story about when the “actor” came down with a rather unfortunate rash, and they had to get him a toupee so he wouldn’t be so spectacularly outed?