OTTAWA – According to numerous international columnists, the recent murder of soldier Nathan Cirillo and the subsequent shootout in Parliament have caused the nation of Canada, which has fought and won 6 wars in its history, to have lost its innocence.
“Terrorist ends Canada’s innocence” proclaimed the The Daily Beast in reference to a country whose forces were described as Storm Troopers by terrified German infantrymen in the First World War.
British newspaper the Guardian assured its readers that Canadians, whose soldiers spent five years securing the deadliest parts of Afghanistan after European reinforcements never arrived and lost 158 lives in the process, were not used to this sort of violence.
Meanwhile numerous pundits on Fox News were wondering if Canadian security forces, the same ones who risked their lives and successfully stopped the attacker from accomplishing his apparent goal of killing politicians, could be trusted to keep up their end of the war on terror.
At press time, fuck off.
