From what we've heard, the hotel right across the street from us will be full of RCMP officers for the duration of the games.
The Canadian army has set up camps here and in and around Whistler so scores of armed people will stay close to the games.
And I recently saw a news item that said that the American military will be camping out in Washington State, just south of our border, ready to help if we need them...
Oh, isn't that nice of the Americans.
Well, that's a Canadian response if ever we heard one! And it's the response most of us give when we hear it.
In ancient Rome the Roman military was not allowed to march into Rome because that would be considered a military offensive against Rome, even if it was just all the soldiers coming home. They were that uneasy about armed people taking over their city.
Fast forward to today, and Canadians are quite happy about Americans being ready to flood over the border to help us in the event of a terrorist attack. They have a bloody huge, well financed, gung-ho group of people ready to invade (sorry, I mean help), and we'd be happy to have them come for a while. We just assume they will leave.
Well, they will, won't they? Leave? It won't be an invasion by a foreign army that we didn't think to stop, will it?
It's not like the Americans invade other countries and then refuse to leave... uh oh. This could make the future very interesting.
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