{"id":2786,"date":"2006-10-07T03:07:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T07:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/providing-cannon-fodder-for-empire-since-1867\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:00:57","slug":"providing-cannon-fodder-for-empire-since-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/providing-cannon-fodder-for-empire-since-1867\/","title":{"rendered":"providing cannon fodder for empire since 1867"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2006\/10\/06\/harper-leadership.html?ref=rss\">Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the toll of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan is the price Canada is paying for playing a leadership role in world affairs.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I reckon that if I took a random street poll anywhere (anywhere outside Canada, that is), no more than 3 out of 10 people would consider Canada as having a leadership role. I do not wish to make light of the soldiers&#8217; plight; I just don&#8217;t want them there in my name.<\/p>\n<p>(I was going to make a comment about the nearest thing to a role to most Canadians would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/swisschalet.ca\/\">Swiss Chalet<\/a> 1\/4 chicken dinner, but that doesn&#8217;t work in a written context, and barely works when spoken.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the toll of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan is the price Canada is paying for playing a leadership role in world affairs. I reckon that if I took a random street poll anywhere (anywhere outside Canada, that is), no more than 3 out of 10 people would consider Canada as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1013,964,1200,1096,342,851,213,1113,150,148,1381,166,199,1366,1384,1152,605,1412,582],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-1013","tag-bc","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-chicken","tag-comment","tag-harper","tag-ice","tag-led","tag-light","tag-odd","tag-old","tag-peo","tag-quote","tag-random","tag-rim","tag-rss","tag-tree","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}