We don't get CBC here of course but we do get Fox (legal niceties aside, it's an Australian network). While channel surfing I caught a few minutes of this. Bill O'Reilly was spitting chips. He called the CBC a disgrace to Canada and a shameful waste of taxpayer money.
Anne Coulter repeated her claim that Canadian troops served in Vietnam - some 10,000 of them. This, I believe, represents Canadians who served in Vietnam with the US military. On the one hand, I agree that she was confused; on the other, why did Canada allow this to occur? Most countries, including mine, take the dimmest view of this sort of behaviour.
Note that 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam. And also we were in Korea to support the US - before the UN became involved. And now we're in Iraq. Anti-Canada sentiment around the world at the moment is not based on refusal to join the US or not but on the perception that Canada has no principles. This arose from shrill protests about being cut out of the looting rebuilding contracts for not participating in the fighting.
That the US is divided into red and blue is not true either but the discussion of what was said was too sketchy to tell.
The really interesting part was Fox's assertion - which I'd be most interested in hearing your opinion on - is that there is no difference whatsoever between Americans and Canadians. My impression of the country was that there are distinctive cultural differences between them.
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Anne Coulter repeated her claim that Canadian troops served in Vietnam - some 10,000 of them. This, I believe, represents Canadians who served in Vietnam with the US military. On the one hand, I agree that she was confused; on the other, why did Canada allow this to occur? Most countries, including mine, take the dimmest view of this sort of behaviour.
Note that 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam. And also we were in Korea to support the US - before the UN became involved. And now we're in Iraq. Anti-Canada sentiment around the world at the moment is not based on refusal to join the US or not but on the perception that Canada has no principles. This arose from shrill protests about being cut out of
the lootingrebuilding contracts for not participating in the fighting.That the US is divided into red and blue is not true either but the discussion of what was said was too sketchy to tell.
The really interesting part was Fox's assertion - which I'd be most interested in hearing your opinion on - is that there is no difference whatsoever between Americans and Canadians. My impression of the country was that there are distinctive cultural differences between them.