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Washington must recognize the limits of Canada as a strategic ally
Canada shouldn’t be the automated U.S. ally that its historic submission suggests. Regardless of sharing comparable democratic values, Ottawa nonetheless all the time seeks to extend its autonomy. Whereas showing to dress its obvious bandwagoning with Washington on probably the most essential strategic points in protection of North America, Ottawa is also in a refined seek for allies to counterbalance U.S. affect. The implication is that Washington decision-makers should acknowledge that Canada is probably the most eager ally when it’s embedded inside the broadest of coalitions.
Canada secretly appears to Paris, moderately than Washington, for its safety. As greatest articulated by professor Justin Massie on the College of Ottawa, Canada’s international coverage is to maximise its autonomy versus the U.S., by counterbalancing Washington with European coalitions. The online impact is that Canada by no means will take part in a army marketing campaign or operation with the U.S. except France is current, no matter whether or not the UK is taking part. So, Canada was current within the Korean Conflict in 1950, Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan from 2001-2014, and the bombing of Libya in 2011 — however absent for the Vietnam Conflict, the 1983 invasion of Grenada, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It is because France represents the European counterbalance to the U.S., whereas England, a lot of whose deterrent relies on U.S. know-how, is not a strategically impartial nation.
Ottawa’s principal international coverage objective is to embed and bind the U.S. into an institutionalized multilateral coalition that features highly effective counterbalances to the U.S. Virtually talking, provided that French boots and planes are on the bottom in Taiwan, will Canada assist the U.S. and defend democracy there. This can imply that interesting to Ottawa requires Washington to create a coalition that appeases and consists of Paris.
Canada’s strategic place is buttressed by a political tradition that views points of U.S. society unfavorably. The tropes are no less than a century outdated: the U.S. is popularly seen as affected by excessive crime charges, antipathy to environmental points, inequitable schooling, poorly traveled, influenced by finance capitalists, an excessive amount of marketing campaign financing, unsuccessful at assuaging poverty, intrusion of faith in politics, litigious, militarily interventionist, and influenced by its armaments business. Canada has a expertise for camouflaging its anti-American insecurity, and this resonates with the left in Canada, which varieties the federal government two-thirds of the time. The stunning truth is that Canadian leaders, who cynically benefit from these prejudices, privately give beneficiant assessments of their American counterparts.
These few Individuals who look to Canada’s approval as a sign of worldwide endorsement, due to Canada’s supposed affect as a socially progressive society, must know that Canada’s approval of the U.S. brings Washington no constructive public diplomacy or materials benefit, as a result of Canada has no center energy affect. Center energy affect is an often-touted Canadian benefit that empowers Ottawa to make use of ethical suasion to encourage the diffusion of liberal values on this planet. Nonetheless, there may be little tutorial proof that it’s actual. Canada’s failure to answer China’s kidnapping of two of its residents underlines Ottawa’s diplomatic impotence — and leaves uncovered greater than 300,000 Canadians in China to additional abuse when Beijing feels a necessity for reasonable leverage. Canada’s repute is usually as a snug however chilly vacation spot for immigrants and refugees.
Third, buttressed by its political tradition, Ottawa free-rides on U.S. deference, with out value to its repute of trustworthiness. Repeated Canadian governments have perversely and passive-aggressively repurposed the US’s 1823 Monroe Doctrine to imply that Canada will disarm to absolutely the minimal. Ottawa wants solely sufficient army power to allow participation in worldwide coalitions essential to trend allies to entrap the U.S. in multilateral protection preparations, and never the minimal ample it must defend its nook of North America.
In 2005, Canada declined participation within the U.S. missile protection structure, understanding that the U,S. couldn’t however defend Canada, for the last word free journey. In 2002, I witnessed the results of an train at NORAD headquarters in Cheyenne Mountain, and the influence zone of an inbound missile is indicated by a chance of influence oval that shrinks because the missile approaches its targets. NORAD sensors can not distinguish between whether or not Toronto or Chicago is the goal of a mid-course, exoatmospheric missile till lengthy after the newest level of interception. The newest topics of Canada-U.S. dialogues have been restricted to the minor problems with border, cyber, local weather, nature and opioid safety, multilateral organizations and alliances, and Canada’s typically declining better involvement within the salient problems with combating faux information from Russia, or taking part in missile protection, and F-35 procurement.
In distinction, the deference the U.S. supplies Canada has no comparability in world politics, shattering any accusation that the U.S. asserts a sphere of affect in North America, usually a privilege of nice powers. There by no means has been a Melian second between Washington and Ottawa: The U.S. at its worst was making an attempt to liberate Canada and inflict the rights and freedoms of its personal Structure.
Washington persists in its indulgence of Ottawa’s reluctance to do its justifiable share. The result’s that Ottawa has turn out to be accustomed to behaving way more like an adamant impartial, like Sweden or Chilly Conflict-era India, than as an ally. Certainly one of Ottawa’s Lilliputian acts of strategic misdirection has been to burden itself with the protection of the Arctic, largely to keep away from being dedicated to Ukraine’s protection in opposition to Russia’s invasion, or the potential protection of Taiwan, ought to China assault. Canada is of little assist to the U.S. within the Arctic, and can’t accomplish something strategically helpful there with out the U.S.
What Washington should do to attract Canada into Asia extra considerably is to enlist the help of its non-British European allies. Ought to the necessity come up, Canada may very well be paired up with the deployed floor forces of France, Italy or Germany.
Julian Spencer-Churchill, Ph.D., is affiliate professor of political science at Concordia College, director of the Canadian Centre for Strategic Research and a former Canadian Forces captain.
CNA Staff, Oct 7, 2024 / 12:15 pm
The Archdiocese of Washington on Sunday celebrated its annual Red Mass ahead of the opening of the Supreme Court’s October 2024 term, a liturgy that the archdiocese said invokes “God’s guidance and blessing on justices, judges, diplomats, attorneys, and government officials.”
Washington Archbishop Cardinal Wilton Gregory was the principal celebrant at the Mass, while Deacon Darryl Kelley offered the homily. The assembly sang the “Star-Spangled Banner” prior to the opening of the Mass.
Attendees at the liturgy included Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. as well as associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, the U.S. solicitor general, was also in attendance.
Red Masses are offered for those who work in all legal professions. The practice dates back to the 13th century.
The Washington archdiocesan Red Mass, held at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington, is sponsored by the John Carroll Society, an organization of Catholic professionals. The group has been sponsoring the Mass for over 70 years.
Kelley in his homily said the Mass was not a “mere social event at the beginning of the judicial year.”
“Today, in this nation’s ongoing work to form a more perfect union in justice, genuine liberty, and the common good, we praise God for the blessings and guidance of the spirit of truth and gifts,” Kelley said.
It is “no coincidence,” Kelley said, that the Red Mass first began centuries ago “when the foundation of our law today was being developed.”
“And the foundation of our law is the common law,” he said, “which is rightly grounded in fundamental principles and right reason.”
The Red Mass serves as a “recognition that there is a higher, timeless, unwritten, transcendent law of justice, such that law, per se, is something that is discovered, or received — not arbitrarily created or decreed,” the deacon noted.
Quoting the 13th-century English jurist Henry de Bracton, Kelley noted that God “is the author of justice.”
The Mass was preceded by remarks on the history of the John Carroll Society by board of governors member Liz Young.
In addition to the annual Red Mass, the John Carroll Society also sponsors a yearly “Rose Mass,” meant to “invoke God’s blessings on the medical, dental, nursing, and allied workers and the many health care institutions in the Archdiocese of Washington.”
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Daniel Payne is a senior editor at Catholic News Agency. He previously worked at the College Fix and Just the News. He lives in Virginia with his family.
Saturday Night Live delighted fans by delivering part two of Washington’s Dream sketch, which was hailed last year as the show’s “best skit in years.”
Nate Bargatze reprised his role as George Washington to share more of his hopes and dreams for the country with his Revolutionary War soldiers Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and James Austin Johnson.
The sketch mocks the peculiarities of the American–English language. As his men question whether they will win the battle, Bargatze’s Washington tells them: “We will live through the battle ahead because we fight to control our own destiny, to create our own nation…and to do our own thing with the English language.”
“I dream, that one day our great nation will have a word for the number 12,” he continues. “We shall call it a dozen.”
“And what other numbers will we have a word for?” asks Yang.
“None,” Bargatze replies, completely deadpan. “Only 12 shall have its own word because we are free men, and we will be free to spell some words two different ways.”
Day then asks: “Which words, sir?”
“Donut,” Bargatze replies. He adds: “We will also have two names for animals, one when they are alive and a different one for when they become food. Cows will be beef, pigs will be pork.”
Yang asks: “Chickens, Sir?”
“That one stays,” Bargatze says. “Chickens are chicken.”
Fans welcomed the second installment of the skit on social media. “I honestly didn’t think they could pull this off again but so happy to be proven wrong,” one said on X.
Another, taking aim at how the latest Joker: Folie à Deux film has been widely reviewed as a flop, said: “This is how you make a sequel Todd Phillips.”
“I needed this this morning. Very clever & so true,” someone else said.
It follows last year’s hilarious skit where Washington outlined his dream for a country with its own “system of weights and measures.”
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The scene was a takedown of American measurements and other peculiarities, including lines like: “We are free men! And we will be free to measure liquids in litres and milliliters… but not all liquids, only soda, wine and alcohol. For milk and paint we will use gallons, pints and quarts, god-willing.”
Asked by one of his soldiers (Day) how many liters are in a gallon, he replies simply: “Nobody knows.”
Last night’s SNL also poked fun at the vice presidential debate between JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan).
Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg) watched on as the pair stared into each other’s eyes and found “common ground”, prompting Rudolph to spit out wine and exclaim: “Why are they vibing?”
LANDOVER, Md. — It’s OK, Commanders fans.
You don’t know what to do with yourselves, do you? You’re like Ricky Bobby.
This can’t be real, right? Not for this franchise, which has worn holes in your soul for three decades, beaten the care out of you with one embarrassing off- and on-field episode after another, made you put your tickets on the secondary market and led to off-the-charts bile readings every Monday morning. It’s been grim around here. Grim.
You have every reason to let cynicism and jaded history be your guide. None of the team’s three units is fully formed or totally functional.
But, it’s also OK to believe. Really.
It doesn’t mean Washington will be playing for a Lombardi Trophy any time soon. But the boulder is, at last, moving toward that, rather than rolling away from it.
At 4-1 and in first place in the NFC East after spanking the Cleveland Browns 34-13 at Northwest Stadium, the Commanders have already equaled their win total for all of last season. They didn’t even play that well in the first half Sunday, in what Dan Quinn called a “grimy” first 30 minutes. Jayden Daniels threw a bad interception at the Cleveland 5 in the first quarter, after … well, I can show you better than I can describe it:
Daniels keeps the play alive with an incredible 66-yard pass🔥
🎥: @NFL pic.twitter.com/nTAPNQ9iCt
— NFL on Prime Video (@NFLonPrime) October 6, 2024
That was 66 yards, on the move, on third-and-13.
The stadium wasn’t sold out Sunday, but it was more filled with actual Commanders fans than I can remember seeing — and hearing — in a very long time. The home crowd chanting “defense” and meaning it? Goodness.
People in Commanders jerseys started leaving late in the third quarter … but it was because their team was up 34-6. And when is the last time the home team was up by that much in this stadium?
It was Nov. 15, 2015, against the New Orleans Saints, a game Washington won 47-17. (Kirk Cousins was pretty efficient that day, going 20-of-25 for 324 yards and four touchdown passes.)
It’s not that there were no Browns fans around Sunday. There were many. But they didn’t overwhelm the stadium with their noise, as opposing fans have done for most of the last decade. They couldn’t, because every four or five minutes, Daniels did another thing that left their jaws slacked while Washington’s faithful could almost giggle at the absurdity of what they were watching.
There was Daniels going deep to Terry McLaurin. There he was beating the Browns’ man coverage late in the first half, dropping a 41-yard TD in the bucket to Dyami Brown. There he went, after his bombs made Cleveland’s defensive backs stay glued to their men rather than come up and assist their defensive line to keep Daniels contained, scampering out of the pocket, time and again, taking off downfield to the tune of 11 carries for 82 yards, including converting a fourth-and-3 at the Cleveland 40 by making linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah miss, then taking off for 34 yards down the sideline.
And watch the impact, as Browns defenders’ bodies sagged every time Daniels moved the chains again.
Jayden Daniels can break your brain if you’re not stout of mind on the opposite sideline.
“It can be demoralizing,” Quinn said. “’Cause all of a sudden, you’ve created some long-yardage scenarios. … To have a big shot, even when the person’s guarded well, and you put it in the only spot it could go. The play that comes to mind before today was the one to Terry at the end of the Cincinnati game, where there was really only one spot where he could throw that pass. He had a couple of those scenarios today.”
And this is happening every week. And it’s happening here.
Not just Kansas City. Or San Francisco. Or Philly or Buffalo or Detroit. Here, too. Finally.
The player who is rapidly becoming Must-See TV around the country, the person about whom the morning shoutfests are devoting increasing amounts of their time (“If you could clone Jayden Daniels, what team would you put him on?”), the first-round quarterback pick who is going first overall now in the 2024 NFL redrafts (yes, it’s still 2024; these are the clickbait times in which we live) plays for your team.
And afterward, the first thing he talked about was the plays he and the offense left on the field.
“I’m happy to get back and watch the film,” Daniels said. “It’s always better to go back and review stuff after a win, but we’ve got to improve.”
The Commanders did leave points out there Sunday. Daniels’ pick erased a scoring chance deep in the red zone, a play after he missed an open Zach Ertz in the end zone. Later, he missed Ertz again, after the tight end had cleared down the seam past the Cleveland secondary. McLaurin fumbled on the first play of the third quarter and dropped another potential TD on a near-perfect fade from Daniels late in the third. Washington was fortunate that wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus was hustling downfield early in the second quarter at the end of Austin Ekeler’s 50-yard run and was able to recover Ekeler’s fumble after Browns corner Martin Emerson Jr. punched the ball out.
There was complementary football all over the field Sunday. Austin Seibert still hasn’t missed a kick since he’s gotten here. Linebacker Nick Bellore, a two-time Pro Bowler on special teams in Seattle before Washington signed him to its practice squad a month ago, hit most everyone who tried to return a kick for the Browns.
The defense again got home Sunday, sacking Cleveland’s Deshaun Watson seven times, with Bobby Wagner forcing a Watson fumble after a big hit on him in the third quarter. Washington’s defensive tackles were outstanding, stuffing the Browns running game and forcing multiple third-and-longs. (Sunday was third-year man Phidarian Mathis’ best game here, by far.) The woeful Browns were 1 for 13 on third downs.
And even though Daniels struggled at times, the big plays he and the offense made not only picked up Washington’s defense but also reinforced what it already believes: Daniels is earning everything he’s gotten so far.
“It fires us up,” linebacker Frankie Luvu said. “’Cause we know what Jayden puts in all week. The kid shows up at 4 a.m., and he’s already lifting in there. Me and Bobby walk in at like 5, 6, and dude is already done with his film tape, done with his lift. He’s already a step ahead. To see that, and to (then) see what he does on Sundays, it’s not shocking. It is to the world. But the dude put in a week of work. It’s a long conversation, but what you put in is what you’re gonna get out. To do what he does, it just fires us up and helps us keep going.”
That’s why it’s OK to hope. That’s why it’s OK to dream about what could happen around here, and maybe sooner than we all think, if Josh Harris and his folks can find a place to build the stadium they want, and if Adam Peters, as I believe he will, keeps his draft powder dry and doesn’t reach for a short-term fix at the trade deadline and has a couple of more cracks at things in 2025 and 2026, and if Quinn and his staff continue to develop what they’re given. Nothing’s promised in this league, or this game. The Ravens await next Sunday in Baltimore, and if you ever want to stress-test these Commanders, to see where the fissures still lie, that’s the perfect place to do so.
But it’s OK to believe. And to dream. And to hope for greatness down the line. Because the quarterback, the one who hasn’t been around here in so very, very long, isn’t skipping steps. He isn’t cutting the line. He wants to be great, and he’s grinding to become just that.
Win or lose in a given week, it’s real. For real.
(Photo of Frankie Luvu and Washington teammates celebrating with fans after his fumble recovery: Timothy Nwachukwu / Getty Images)
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