POSTED RESPONSE TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is simply the ultimate demonstration of how meaningless the war in Afghanistan is.
You have to put on a P.T. Barnhum stunt to remind Americans you are even there?
The pathetic Canadians responsible for this, apart from lacking any judgment, clearly are completely ignorant of history.
Americans know they are responsible for every victory everywhere, and even manage to fantasize victories from their losses.
The British breakthrough of cracking Germany's WW II codes was portrayed in a Hollywood movie a few years ago as an American achievement.
Ask any American who won WWII, and you'll never ever hear about the Soviets’ four years of agony and 27 million dead.
Indeed, of the more than 50,000,000 people slaughtered in WWII, America lost less than 1/2 of one percent, yet every American knows America won.
You'd be hard put to find a single American who knows Canada entered WW II two years before they did.
It's the same for WWI. The two sides lost about 18 million in four years of bloodshed. America entered the war in its last months, just tipping the balance enough to ensure a defeat for Germany.
But any American will tell you America won WWI.
And, God, just look at that holocaust of Vietnam, that criminal enterprise in murder in which America killed about 3 million Vietnamese and managed to lose the war.
But you'd never know America lost the war if you see movies like Rambo or go to the Wall in Washington.
