Get Back on your Meds, Dallaire!
May 13, 2008 3:00 pm Canadian Politics, Islam and the WestSo the Mister Snuffalluffagus of the human rights fast-set, whingeing Senator Romeo Dallaire is in a right tizzy about our moral standing over the case of al-Qaeda youth squad star Omar Khadr.
Dallaire serves up his favourite shibboleth, the “child soldier” argument. Well, that has been smacked down solidly by your correspondent, among many others. The apple of his father’s evil eye was a willing and fervent brigand, not a coerced innocent child.
Save your tears for real victims, General, and keep a better eye on your own credibility.
Glendronach
Fred :
Date: May 13, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Romeo is still suffering guilt because he failed to act in Rwanda, failed to save millions of lives and blamed it all on “I was following orders”. He did, millions of humans died and he is still making excuses for his lack of generalship, to say nothing of moral fibre.
Failed generals follow orders, great generals know when to not follow orders.
Dallaire is a very failed General. He has become quite a pathetic figure, someone we could pity if he would just admit his failings. That would be the start of his healing process.
He prefers to blame others.
jckirlan :
Date: May 13, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
It is clear Delaire is mentally unstable and has been for a long time. His insanity caused the death of many people he was responsible for. What real General would allow such a pogrom to happen while they had the power and arms to stop it. Arthur Currie he is not. Insane yes.
David :
Date: May 13, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Sorry to disagree but Khadr was a child under the UN Convention that Canada signed on to in June 2005 (oh, I know, it was those Liberals again). As Dallaire so clearly said, you are either on the side of the law or you are outside it and Canada is currently well outside to our shame.
You law and order types amaze me. You cannot pick and choose which laws you want to respect or you undermine the rule of law, period.
Glendronach :
Date: May 13, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
You mean the convention that was signed onto nearly three years after Khadr committed his crimes and was detained? Apart from that not insubstantial gap in time, I have demonstrated that he more convincingly meets the definition of an irregular brigand than “child soldier”.
I don’t pick and choose from laws, I merely do my research.
Kursk :
Date: May 14, 2008 @ 1:00 am
Why is it to ‘our shame’?
You must be a Liberal or dipper basketball court builder.If only Little Omar had a ball and a place to play..Alas..we failed him, and it caused him to pitch a grenade that blinded one soldier and took the life of another.
Where did we go so wrong?
bert :
Date: May 14, 2008 @ 4:13 am
Well Dave we can pick and choose kooks and your a typical Liberal kook.Go join Dallaire and condemn your own country.What a group of wingnuts the Liberal party has in its arsenal of idiot weapons.Its amazing the things that come out of their mouths.The scary part is that its not tongue in cheek,they actually beleive what they say.
Lemon :
Date: May 14, 2008 @ 4:24 am
I knew a child soldier well…
When he was a 75 year old public servant.
In 1943, at the age of 16, he joined the Canadian Airbourne Regiment. On June 6, 1944 he jumped out of an airplane in back of Normandy, and was twice wounded that day.
Child soldiers are not just for the evil, they have existed through history.
May not be right, but the way it has been. The good ones, of course though, didn’t beg that a government mommy (that they despise) would protect them from the consequences of their act.
Joe :
Date: May 14, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Lemon,
Well said.
I actually think that the BS UN Child soldier legislation is a POS and we should rescind our signature.
Essentially it keeps Canada from using them. Oh, and if our troops or allies are attacked by them, we can’t kill them either.
Stupid. Apparently the best armor for the Taliban is to hide behind a kid.
300baud :
Date: May 21, 2008 @ 9:50 am
I have read a lot of despicable things on political blogs, but this is the first time I have seen the vicious, opportunistic slandering of a national hero like Dallaire.
If you want to maintain the feeble pretense of basic decency, you would do well to withdraw the comment that people died through Dallaire’s failures, or you will back it up with more than a drive-by smearing. This is not a comment to drop casually just because it feels good to be an asshole. (I know, it does feel good.)
It is not a crime to have a mental illness. It is not a personal failing. I am not seeing a lot of stable personalities here, people in glass houses, etc. I could be classed among the mentally ill. I know many people who take medication, and so do all of you. To attack someone on this point, and purely to score partisan brownie points, is truly tasteless.