How “badass” is Canada’s defence minister looking today?
Harjit Sajjan, a veteran of Bosnia and Afghanistan, is no fool. He and his service to our country and our military deserve our respect but his recent comments to CBC about the threat of ISIS and the Trudeau government’s decision to pull Canada back from the fight look like pure foolishness today.
"ISIS is a threat, no doubt about that. Should we fear it? No. The Canadian population should have full confidence in all the security services to keep us safe,” Sajjan said.
Tell that to residents of Paris where the French security forces failed to stop a cell that carried out a series of coordinated, sophisticated attacks that left more than 150 people dead and shattered a nation.
Paris was put under curfew for the first time since 1944.
In the waking hours after the attacks ISIS claimed responsibility saying that France was at the “top of the list” of its targets. If only the French had sent some diplomats to the caliphate maybe this could have all been avoided.
That line may sound glib but Minister Sajjan actually told CBC that we could have dealt with ISIS diplomatically rather than militarily if we had been smarter.
"They were smaller at one time, we need to get better at identifying the subtle indicators so we might be able to have dealt with it diplomatically,” Sajjan said.
This tells me that whatever honours and praise were sent his way after his time in Afghanistan, including a glowing letter about his value as an intelligence asset, Minister Sajjan doesn’t know the first thing about ISIS.
Read this text from their claim of responsibility for the Paris attacks.
“The stench of death will not leave their noses as long as they remain at the forefront of the Crusaders’ campaign, dare to curse our prophet, boast of a war on Islam in France, and strike Muslims in the lands of the caliphate with warplanes that were of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris,” it said.
Of course a Liberal supporter might say that if we all just pull our planes back and leave “Muslim lands” this will stop. Wrong.
ISIS, from the beginning, has been about one thing – the caliphate.
Those of us willing to listen to what they were saying have understood this.
The people fighting and dying for this bloodthirsty organization are not doing so for national pride or for riches. They come from around the world to help support the idea of Muslim dominance in the Middle East and beyond.
Their proper name translated to English is The Islamic State in Syria and the Levant. What on earth does that mean? What territory does it encompass?
Historic Syria is much more than its present day borders and the Levant includes Iraq, Israel, parts of Egypt and more.
The leaders of ISIS have declared the return of the caliphate and are working hard to bring that about. That means taking back lands throughout the Middle East, across North Africa and into Spain, France and other parts of Europe that the leaders of ISIS believe belong under their control with all submitting to their view of Islam.
I’d like to know how you deal diplomatically with an organization that holds these beliefs, that has used rape, slavery and genocide to achieve their goals.
How do you negotiate with people whose opening and closing positions are submit or die?
Minister Sajjan may have done exemplary work dealing with Afghan villagers loyal to the Taliban but ISIS is a much different beast.
I hope he is up to the job but so far his comments leave me doubtful.
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I posed a question to our former MND. I asked him why it was necessary to protect our bases at home during the Cold War, but for some reason not while (using his words) the ‘threat is in our backyard’. He looked puzzled and someone beside him whispered in his ear. He gave the same response as Mr Sajjan just did. I have also learned that with over 100 affiliated groups linked to terrorist organizations in Canada, we do not have the resources to monitor one, and why should we .. according to Mr Sajjan we are all safe.
Its interesting to note that for almost 50 years after WW2 it was necessary to protect our bases and our military families with commissionaires, MPs and guards at the entrance to any base. The enemy lived on the other side of the Atlantic with definitive lines drawn in the sand. Those lines are gone. While we are doing our thing over there, they are doing there thing over here, and the families and many civilian citizens that work for and support the CF are vulnerable.
Fact is the guy was a paper pusher in the military and not many haves any respect for him
H got the job because of his skin colour and nothing else
Run the math- that’s processesing 10000 in 37 days or 270 in an 8hr day or 33/hr. or one every 1.18 min – lets for argument sake say they run 16 hrs double shift (something I can’t see snivel servants doing) that is still one applicant screened every 3.55 min – can a health and security check be run in 3.5 min?
THEY’RE LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH!
A series of shootings occurred on October 22, 2014, at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. At the Canadian National War Memorial, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier on ceremonial sentry duty. He then entered the nearby Centre Block parliament building, where members of the Parliament of Canada were attending caucuses.
The attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was a 32-year-old Canadian habitual offender and drug addict from Montreal. Considered by several acquaintances to have mental issues, he had been observed by acquaintances and mosque staff exhibiting erratic behaviour. Zehaf-Bibeau, who had a Libyan-Canadian father, had converted to Islam in 2004 and visited Libya.
This guy as it was established also had ISIS ideals. So, our “badass” minister is saying we don’t have to worry, we were already attacked and he is acting like we are immune to the sort of thing that went on in Paris. And don’t forget Paris was receptive to all the refugees and this is the thanks they get. There is no conscience here so also don’t think that because Justin has scaled down or removed the Canadian coalition support to fight ISIS still don’t exempt us from attack.
Time to change our strategy and time to change our defense minister.
Really? Name the Paris or 9/11 level attacks that were stopped in Canada.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1075877009098791&set=a.577790525574111.1073741825.100000295067226&type=3
WRONG!!
That’s leftist bury-your-head-in-the-sand-ignore-reality-and-it-will-go-away kind of thinking. Question to Micheal – should we take the chance Mikey???
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/14/ex-aussie-pm-warns-europe-isis-terrorists-hiding-syrian-migrant-invasion/
“..Peace in our time”…Chamberlain thought he could Diplomatically solve “Evil” we know how that turned out….
Well from what I can assess we again are faced with pure Evil
http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-paris-attacks-werent-caused-by-want.html
This video was removed from YouTube today – it has gone viral
1.5 million views in 5 days
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/
They removed it
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This is a truthful response to the article and I will be curious to see if it stays – the last one was removed.
If Sajjan is a true military man – to quote cbc and ctv – a badass – a hero – and all the things the media made up about him – he knows the dangers and would be doing his best to stop this insanity of importing the Syrians.
And if he fails as an officer who took the oath with NO EXPIRATION DATE – he should go public. THAT would make me respect him.
I think/know he is reveling in his new found power and will do nothing of the sort – proving to me he was not much of a military officer and he is not much of a Canadian. He KNOWS!
He will do nothing. That def min position is TOO nice!
He IS ex military – and if he was an officer of ANY capability – he KNOWS!
Not going to do a thing.
Which in the end will indeed prove my point. If he does – I will publicly take this all back.
HE KNOWS!
HE WILL DO NOTHING!
You just watch and see.