A 21 gun salute and a ten plane (almost the entire Canadian airforce) flyover highlighted a medal ceremony in Ottawa today.
"Today is special because we are celebrating a great military success," Prime Minister Harper told the crowd. "Thanks to us the Libyan people can begin to imagine a future free of fear and suffering."
One can only hope that the next target for the Canadian military will be the Harper regime; that they can liberate Canada's First Nations from fear and suffering. After all, by every conceivable human development standard the Libyan people under Gaddafi had it better than Canada's First Nations have it under Harper.
Meanwhile, according to multiple reports from reporters on the ground in Libya, the people are starting to imagine that things were better under the despot. The rule of law is on hiatus. Armed gangs loot and kill with impunity. The NTC is nowhere near having control over anything with the possible exception of the petrol infrastructure. And when you look at how they are top-heavy with former oil industry executives, it makes you wonder if they even care about having control over anything else.
But Canadians don't get to celebrate victory very often, so let them have this one.
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