A YouTube clip from a Fox News program is going viral across Canada, but not because Canadians are enjoying it.
Billed as "How to lose friends and alienate countries," the March 18 excerpt from a Fox News show called Red Eye presents a conversation among four young Americans about recent reports that the Canadian Forces will need a year to rebuild after our troops come home from Afghanistan.
Much hilarity ensues, followed by almost 3,000 very angry comments.
In other news, thousands attended the ramp ceremony for the four latest Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee.
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Grumpy
3 years ago
It's ignorant Americans....
.....like these that confirm in my mind that Canada should get nuclear bombs.
DPL
3 years ago
So why does the Canadian
So why does the Canadian Military need a year to regroup? We keep hearing how Canada is winning the hearts and minds of the folks in Afghanistan? Poppy sales are up, insurents arn't doing what our famous ex General kept telling us. A bunch of scumbags. Lots of recruiting adds. Things just must be doing great.
morechatter
3 years ago
Bring Our Soliders Home
Sure would be Grand to bring our soilders home and this war to be over and I can hardly wait.
Whats that term again oh yes Turncoat
Like Benedict Arnold or David Emerson
turncoat - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade
Martin then Harper then Campbell all must have considered if the risk that the information they shared with Emerson could be used against them is more than offset by the potential gain derived from hiring the candidate.
morechatter
3 years ago
And Its No Laughing Matter
As believe Canadian military do far better as peace keepers than targets for a war no one should be in.
Van Isle
3 years ago
Now, it's definitly time to
Now, it's definitly time to bring the troops home. What was seen on this video was not critism, but ridicule. I have been against our involvement in Afghanistan from the beginning, but one never ever ridicules people who put their butts on the line. I wonder if any of those bozos on the Fox video have ever been in war? Probably not, cuz people who talk like that, haven't been there, and never mind what side your on.
Skywalker
3 years ago
Fox New?
A moronic station run by morons for morons. Why would anyone pay attention to them. Here are a group of young pre-draft idiots talking like they actually have some experience whining because the U.S. needs Canada, a country of 1/10 the population, to haul its asses out of the fire. Give me a break!
crh
3 years ago
This is no surprise...
as no one should ever expect anything resembling intelligent, insitefull news coverage and/or remarks from this station.
alive
3 years ago
sabotage is a natural reaction
The last batch of "heroes" to die were supposedly saving the world from thousands of explosive devices?
Have anyone considered that if no foreign trops were there, maybe nobody would plant those devices in the first place?
What the natives are doing is called sabotage, something people do when they are occupied by foreign military for no good reason!
I experienced that during WW2 when the Germans invaded my country in order to "protect us"!
Maybe invaders have their own definition of what protection means?