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Originally posted by FlyFishingX:
ETA: Graham, why did you delete your post?
Eh.

I read it over a couple times, and wasn't very happy with it. Rather than rewrite, I thought I could back it out without anyone seeing it.

I guess it's not that bad.

Hey! Who's moderating this stoopid forum? Go ahead and restore my post, please . . .

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Originally posted by GrayHam, before I deleted it:

To be honest?

I think it might have a bit to do with how the country was born.

The United States [b]fought for their independence.
Canada waited until it was granted independence.

The United States has been attacked, directly, and pulled into war as a result. There is some empathy for what Israel has been through.
Canada has been pulled into war as an obligation as part of the Commonwealth (satellite part of the British Empire, even after "independence"). There is less empathy, as Canadians on the whole have never really experienced what the US and Israel have experienced, at least not in the last 200 years.

I think there is still a culture that says, Hey, chill out, wait it out, everything will be fine.

Of course, that's just an opinion . . . I could be full of shit.[/b]
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