World War #3

Last weekend's slaughter in Paris is not just an isolated event. It is another step in lunatic fringe Islam's war with the West. It's evolution at work. It is what war has become.

It's a dispersed war. It is no longer concentrated on massed battlefields where dug-in armies slug it out as in WW1 or highly mobile mechanized armies do battle on the run as in WWII. Now, this new war can erupt any time, anywhere.

At this point it ought to be quite clear that major technological changes were initiated and hurried along by battlefield needs. If we see technology as a plus, then war is a plus, too, right?

So what we have now is limited skirmishes launched by psychological basket cases all around the planet. 

Their contribution to the evolution of technology is significant. There would have been no pressing need to develop the high-flying drones, the satellite monitoring systems and the smart bombs fully capable of taking out targeted sites anywhere on the face of the planet and deliver a knockout punch on mobile moving targets from the edge of space.

There remains only the problem of correctly identifying moving targets from space, but rest assured there are people working on it right now. When that one is solved, we can thank the jihadis for initiating its need.

While effective in weeding out the homicidal psychopaths among us, war also costs many innocent lives, so it is unclear if it qualifies as a good evolutionary process. We can only sit back and hope that over all, it serves humanity's evolution in a positive way.

Our new Prime Minister

Our newly-minted PM might have taken the ISIS attack on Paris as a solid opportunity to back out of some less than brilliant election promises he made without being held accountable or being seen as back-pedalling.

He did not. Instead, he spent his opening rounds at the international conference posing for selfies and reaffirming his own lack of good judgement.

More mature leaders all pledged support for the French cause in the face of mindless terror, but Trudeau stuck to his guns. He reaffirmed his off-the cuff decision to withdraw air support against ISIS and import large numbers of migrants from Syria in a hurry, ignoring the chance that there might also be lunatic Fringe Islamic infiltrators among them.

The withdrawal of Canada's fighter jets gives ISIS the opportunity to brag openly that the Paris attack has succeeded in putting a wedge into the solidarity of the forces aligned against them.

It's easy to speculate that these actions accurately represent the head space of the electorate that rocketed Trudeau to power in Canada. Had he shown some ability to think on his feet, our newly minted Prime Minister's actions would have been unrepresentative of the mentality of the people who cast their ballot for a rock star instead of an experienced leader.