“It’s quite possible that the greatest favor the United States could do for Canada is to declare war on it. No, this isn’t a tribute to South Park, the TV cartoon that popularized a song — Blame Canada — calling for an outright invasion of America’s northern neighbor. A full-scale conquest is unnecessary; all Canada needs is to be slapped around a little bit, to be treated like a whining kid who’s got to start acting like a man. Why would such a war be necessary? The short answer is: to keep the Canadians from being conquered by the United States. In effect, it would be a war to keep Canada free.”
– Jonah Goldberg, “Bomb Canada: The Case for War,” National Review, November 25, 2002.
“You might as well save another trillion by saying that we are not going to have a bicentennial invasion of Canada as a way to get the War of 1812 done right. There are a lot of countries that we could decide not to attack and have savings. So that’s a farce.”
– Charles Krauthammer on Fox News today.
This enormous peace dividend will not make Paul Krugman happy. But then again, what does?
Related: “If it’s Monday, the campaigning president must be issuing a new plan for something (before another fundraiser in New York City),” Andrew Malcolm writes at the L.A. Times, in a story titled, “Day No. 972: President Obama unveils a deficit reduction plan.”
But not bombing Canada waits for no man.
One of my gurus thought that bombing Saturn was a good way to keep the military industrial complex satisfied. He suggested that the war ought to be nuclear to prove to the Saturnians (is that a word?)that we are serious.
We might get some support from the rest of Canada if we confined out bombing to Quebec.
Brilliant! My father used to diet in a similar fashion, eating only the pieces in a package with broken cookies. By not eating the full cookies he reasoned he was saving calories.
I’ve been working overseas in the oil & energy business, and have met a lot of Canadians. Except for Ontario, they would all pretty much be willing to become US citizens for about $50k each.
I can’t help but think that buying them off would have to be cheaper than an invasion…
Bst buying Canadian wouldn’t help the US economy like not prosecuting a war with Canada would. Plus if we have a war with Canada and don’t invade or actually fight we might be able to force them to take Detroit in the peace settlement.
Paul Ryan already has an excellent example, and it’s already in the congressional record.
Search for “ryan moon yogurt” on YouTube.
Dam, where the hell is Curt Lemay! we could use him right about now, and who has the “Bat Phone”