April 12, 2005
Don't let it stop the beatification
A necessary tonic in the Post today on newest Canadian senator Romeo Dallaire. Dallaire is appreciated, generally speaking, by members of the media far more than soldiers, I find. The former group identifies with his witnessing of tragedy and failed attempts to raise alarm bells. To say he has the conscience of a good journalist is not meant as a slight. But in military terms his catatonia in crisis is, at the absolute best, a cautionary example. As the authors correctly observe, his recent best-selling book does not mention his refusal to testify at a Belgian inquiry into the loss of that country's soldiers in Rwanda, but that omission doesn't hold him back from calling them a lot of racist alcoholics, either. It's rare to see a general so overtly blame the dead for his mission's failure, and it does no credit to Canadian arms at all to have it appear in print.
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