Do we need more weapons?

Editor: Latest from Ottawa: Considering buying 12 submarines, 120 attack helicopters and much more.

Are we in need of more submarines? The four we bought from Britain are laying in dry dock because they do not work. Do we need 12 more submarines? Where will we store them? Do we have enough dry docks for 12 more?

Will these 12 subs be misfits as the last four were? What will we use these subs for? Are there boogie men in need of terror?

Who makes these decisions? Are they related to Brian Mulroney and also on the take?

Will these subs require missiles so we can hurt some innocent children in some foreign countries?

It is one thing to purchase killing machines, but who will be killed? We can’t just buy them and let them rust up in dry dock.

Maybe we should buy some more junk from Britain and have our maintenance crews spend years on repairs and millions of dollars, too. We have to have some definite targets so we can actually practise with these weapons. Who do the people in Ottawa have in mind?

Would these dollars not be better spent on coastal defence and rescue boats and helicopters since we seem to be short of these?

Now, Ottawa also needs 120 attack helicopters so we can go offshore and kill some more innocent people— there must be somewhere that we can fly and start killing. We can’t use them at home, so where do we go?

Is Ottawa playing in the same sandbox as the U.S.? They seem to decide that certain countries need regime change, so they decide to go in and do just that. Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi are two examples. Do we, Canadians, want to play in that sandbox? There must be something in the drinking water at the Rideau Club that affects the thinking power of these politicians.

The seven nations that Mr. Trump does not like are at this time under attack by U.S. forces on police work. We should not join him in his folly. No wonder that the U.S. has fewer friends in this world.

Jorgen Hansen, Kelowna