Wayne Northey responds to Adnan Kahn's article, "Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS" (Macleans, May 11, 2021).
Wayne:
In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) is a bunch of trained hitmen. There is no declared war Canada is in1. Testimonials are ubiquitous that intelligence gathered by CSOR and others by its very nature is often faulty, frequently manipulated, at best uncertain, at worst an invitation to open slaughter of innocents–not unlike drone warfare.
CSOR serves as judge, jury, and executioner against an “enemy” that appears and disappears and reappears like the smile of the Cheshire Cat. When the enemy is fluid, it is really invariably open season, with no one on-site to hold the killers accountable. Neither a positive code of morality nor ethics guides the killers. In the words of Nick Turse‘s arresting title, it is a policy given to permitting CSOR operatives and their ilk and partners to Kill Anything That Moves.
The Spec Ops Magazine has delightful titles like: ‘Official longest confirmed sniper kill.” How stirring a thing to know! How proud one feels of these Canadian homegrown assassins. What a wonderful skill set to return to Canada with! And “heroes” such as “American Sniper” Chris Kyle are tragically sick role models–Kyle himself a victim of an assassin . . . Little wonder that so many upon return home continue “open season” on their domestic enemies. After all, it really isn’t “murder,” just “poaching out of season” . . .
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