Sees ae on the A other hand GIVEN our degree of national piety the Somali Inguiry Commission should still be at work in the next century. It has already been on stage for more than a year. Like the flagellants of old we are gluttons for pain. As we all know, unless we are dumb, deaf and blind, the grilling of General Jean Boyle and Co. began after it became known that a Somali had been killed and tortured by our “peacekeepers.” The Builty parties were punished uit that was not enough four the parsons of political cor- rectness. The inquiry is a farce writ- ten by fools whose idea of active service is a wip to the parliamentary bar. But they expect men in a den of iniq- uity like Somalia to be social workers. ‘ In their dream world sol- diers should never swear, get drunk, or have sex with the nearest available female body. They forget, if they ever knew, that the drunken and licentious soldiery have always been with us. It goes with the territory. And with stress. If they don’t like it they should get rid of the army and start handing out Tibetan prayer wheels in the way Sheila Copps hands out “free flags. They don’t do that because the purpose of the misnamed “peacekeeping” process is to make us look good at the U.N. Without peacekeepers there would be no place for Canada at the top table of selective recti- tude. The media are part of the farce, That’s why we sce headlines of horrification like “Senior leaders were drunk in Somalia,” the story being that a colonel and a sergeant major were drunk on a New Year’s Eve and had got up to some pranks with weapons, Oh gosh! Other gasps of displeasure concerned an officer who was said to have offered a case of champagne to the first man who terminated a Somali. Hardly the sort of thing to say atan NDP convention, admittedly, but understand- able when thieves were swip- ing stuff night and day and the officer had had a few swigs. Not to mention that Somalia is where 18 dead Americans were dragged through the streets by their heels to the cheers of savages. There have been cries of “alarm that the Airborne called the Somalis “shuffties.” Very bad! Soldiers always invent such names. From Bosnia, meanwhile, came the terrible tidings that ATT Boyle leit biee our men had a habit of get- ting drunk. But who would: ne? Risking one’s ass so that idiot politicians can preen themselves would not be my idea of having a good day, TF foreigners want to knack themselves off, let them. Canadians in Bosnia have had their booze banned — to the amazement, | am sure, of the British contingent, who must have decided then and there never to emigrate to Canada, Even if they could get in, which they wouldn’t. Still more horrifying was the news that our troops were sleeping with local nurs- es and interpreters (female ones, | hope!), and that a Canadian colonel had groped a female captain. Serves her right. Fems have no business being in the field. A far worse fate would await her if she were captured by the Iraqis, Russkis or oth- ers ina real war. No one is perfect. Just look at the shenanigans in Isracl. At Dieppe, the Germans accused our people of handcufting prisoners and letting them drown, Did we have an inquiry on that? At Dachau in 1945 the trigger-happy Yanks machine- gunned to death 348 guards and shot or allowed prisoners ro murder others, for a total of 520, General George Patton ordered a coverup and it remained a secret for 40 years until an American med- teal officer wrote a book about it, complete with pho- tos. The whole thing was shoved under the table. Again, ‘The killers weren’t Canadians, it is true, but tr was still quite a story thar was ignored by the righteous media. We are pious, all right. So much so that we are the only PETTICOAT LANE] wth Welcomes back previous owners Dave & Dee » Archer and Moe. Come » enjoy our Famous Fish & Chips and English Beers. 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