Proportional Militarization Response

"Canadians, particularly our elites, should wake up and grow up. There is something big and very frightening going on in the Middle East. A bunch of zealots under the banner of Islamic State is not only trying to take over Iraq and Syria: It has acted on its promise to come for us, in Canada."
"We can sit passively and await their further deadly incursions. Or we can take on our proper responsibilities to defend Canada and Canadian interests and get out into the world and assist those who confront this evil."
Matthew Fisher, Journalist, Ottawa Citizen

The Canadian Special Operations Regiment is part of the Canadian military mission in Iraq. Opposition parties are raising questions about the nature of this mission after three exchanges of fire between Canadian personnel and militants in Iraq.
Photo Credit: Canadian Forces

Canada's opposition parties contest the Conservative-led Government of Canada in its position that the country has an obligation to pull its weight in defending the world from the sinister predations of a global terror network known as Islamism. Islamist clerics and intellectuals abound in all countries of the world where Muslims have migrated in their zeal to escape the dysfunction of the Muslim world. Though they have found haven outside the Islamic countries they have left, among them are eager conscripts to jihad.

Those aspiring and practising jihadists travel to Middle East and North African areas of sectarian conflict to ply the trade that appears so appealing to them as faithful Muslims responding to the call to arms. Defending Islam from the kuffar, the Crusaders and the Jews, and from those Muslims who are insufficiently invested in violent upheaval that the call to jihad represents. They represent a threat of spiralling violence in the region where they travel to for militant training, and an equal threat to their adopted home countries.

Yet in Canada, the two major political parties who are eager to oppose the government -- though a vote was taken in the House of Commons and an agreement ensued that Canada would join forces with the U.S.-led coalition to deter and defeat the Islamic State as it  roars through Syria and Iraq, slaughtering religious and ethnic minorities and leaving a trail of corpses and legions of women raped and taken into slavery behind their wake -- accuse the government of misleading the Canadian electorate.

This, despite the fact that the majority of Canadians are more than supportive of the government position, feeling that their country must respond to the threats with due force of action.

The issue centres around the opposition parties clamouring for Canada to be a "peace-keeping" nation in a world where peace is proving increasingly elusive. And where clearly enough a military response is required to halt the advance of a vicious medieval menace to civilization. The Canadian NDP and Liberal parties wax poetic on the role of the green-bereted peacekeeper, nostalgic for a return to a world order without chaos and violence (which never existed), as though their wishes for brotherhood has any bearing on reality.

Recent reports that Canadian advisers travel with Iraqi and Kurdish troops in their advisory capacity and have as a result been found on occasion on the field of battle, calling in air strikes against the Islamic State, and on several occasions having to respond with sniper fire to deadly jihadist ambushes strikes the fear of "mission creep" into those docile souls dedicated to humanitarian aid as a Canadian mission, with the eschewing of any military component.