http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/highwa...y-for-canadian-killed-fighting-isis-1.2667293
John Gallagher is a true Canadian hero. He walked the talk.
John Gallagher is a true Canadian hero. He walked the talk.
John Gallagher, R.I.P.
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I have a hard time affording a mercenary (essentially) the same honour as fallen Canadian troops.
It's not like Canadians who fought Franco were accorded any status as vets.
It's not like Canadians who fought Franco were accorded any status as vets.
Several dozen members of Toronto's small Kurdish community attended his funeral to pay their respects.
Canadian Dillion Hillier also fought alongside the Kurds. He was recalled back to Canada because of concerns he might be captured by ISIS.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...kurdish-fight-with-isis-video-shows-1.2857457
Query: If you are Kurd, would you return to your ancestral homeland to fight the invaders?
Canadian Dillion Hillier also fought alongside the Kurds. He was recalled back to Canada because of concerns he might be captured by ISIS.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...kurdish-fight-with-isis-video-shows-1.2857457
Query: If you are Kurd, would you return to your ancestral homeland to fight the invaders?
In an essay entitled ‘Why the War in Kurdistan Matters,’ Gallagher wrote that ISIS has “got the numbers and the weapons to win this war, so to go stand on the other side of the battlefield is objectively insane.”
However, he added, “the Kurdish people … are under threat from a genocidal foe.”
He practically knew he was going there to die. Very brave man.
However, he added, “the Kurdish people … are under threat from a genocidal foe.”
He practically knew he was going there to die. Very brave man.
It isnt like he joined a group of freedom loving democrats, the PYG in Syria is an offshoot of the Turkish based PKK, a Marxist terrorist group responsible for some horrible atrocities since the 1980´s many of them against Kurds opposed to their Khmer Rouge style of thinking. In areas they control in Syria they fly their party´s flag not the Kurdish one and impose their style of one party rule, it is just the left in the West has romanticized them because of the fight against IS and use of women fighters. So no he is not a hero, he does not deserve the same status as a man who fought in Ypres or Normandy.
I did not realize that fighting against ISIS would be controversial. Maybe the West and Russia should vacate the field all together and let .
P.S. I can remember when some people said we shouldn't have allied ourselves with Russia against the Nazis in WW II because Stalin was an evil man.
P.S. I can remember when some people said we shouldn't have allied ourselves with Russia against the Nazis in WW II because Stalin was an evil man.
