Ottawa Sun | 27Mar2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/letters/2011/03/26/17765456.html
WWIII
Re: “Libya fight not worth it,” Michael Coren, Mar.26, 2011.
Decades before Sarajevo became the flash point for World War I, Otto
von Bismarck famously underscored Germany’s isolationist stance by
declaring “The Balkans aren’t worth the bones of a single Pomeranian
grenadier.” When Michael Coren repeats mantra-like “Libya is not worth
one Canadian life” I have to wonder whether this or some other
intervention down the line might not light the fuse for the first world
war of the 21st century. With so much disarray in global affairs,
leaders desperate to change their national narrative will be sorely
tempted to go to war. Will Manama or Sanaa or perhaps Doha
become a future “Sarajevo?”
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alta
(We’re running to our
bunkers now)