I did not refer to worldwide interventions. I referred to the fact that Canada is bordered by a large, friendly nation that has the most capable military in the world and would never allow anyone else to touch her. As a result Canada does not have to maintain much of a defense.

As I pointed out, the USMC alone has more air power and land power than the entire Canadian Defense Forces. If Canada lived in the Middle East like Israel, she’d have to spend a heck of a lot more on defense. As it is now, Canada with almost 4 times the people of Israel, has less planes and tanks than our ME friend.

Mexico also benefits from this arrangement and as a result only has 10 aging F-5 fighter jets in its entire air force. Think about that. A nation of 100 million, the 10th largest economy in the world, and it only has ten 35 year old fighter jets.

Canada should be complimented on making the most of this unique situation. Mexico should do as well, but doesn’t.

Canada, though importing non-westerners, still doesn’t have anything like our black and hispanic populations, and is lucky the US is a buffer between her and Mexico.

Second, Canada gets to skimp on defense because she is protected by the US. Canada only has around 140 fighter jets, which is far less than a smaller nation like Israel. The US Marine Corps alone has more fighters planes than Canada. In fact the US Marine Corps not only has more aircraft than the Canadian Air Force, but it also has more infantrymen and tanks than the Canadian Army. [See Post Update.]

One wonders what Canada’s balance sheet would look like if they shared a border with Mexico and actually had to pay for defense.

On a similar note, look at this Link (you may get a splash screen, just wait 30 seconds and it will forward)

The link describes how bho is teaming up with the EU and Japan (mirroring the three amigos) and are using the world trade organization to strong-arm China into lifting the export limits of rare earth elements…bho goes on to say:

“Now, if China would simply let the market work on its own, we’d have no objections.”

How’s that for hypocritical – bho telling China to implement a (free) market. Further, the demand for these minerals are artificially inflated by the insatiable appetite that the (government subsidized/enforced) “green technologies” have for rare-earth minerals. These minerals are copiously used in hybrid cars, compact fluorescent bulbs, and the wind power turbines, and the only way China can stave off this artificial demand is to limit their exportation.

Basically, the american government calls for the foreign countries to behave in a free-market way (towards government contractors of course) while effectively strip-mining them using the limitless tax dollar.

To make it even worse, the compact fluorescent bulbs and hybrid car batteries are disposable applications. 30 years from now these minerals will be gone…and all that we’ll have to show for it are the carcasses left from the government’s love affair with hoax technologies.

If governments are not eliminated from the world stage, humanity will eventually be driven back to a hunter gatherer society, only this time there will be no technological ladder to climb up on.

(oops – over 200 words – sorry, engineers generally have poor literary skills)

And the odds of that happening are …..