High moral tone, meaning well, do not make foreign policy
The reason Canada needs a well-equipped military and the resolve to use it is this is the price of admission to the table where decisions are actually made about the great issues that afflict the world, the issues that Canadians care about.
Joseph Stalin, on being told that the Pope was opposed to some course of action the Soviet dictator favoured, famously sneered, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" The Catholic Church had the last laugh, of course; good men and women fought back against Communism. But Stalin's question is a ...
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