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Big hat, no cattle

- Do You Want Financial Security or the Appearance of Wealth? MicawberPrinciple.com, December 30, 2013.

3. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his trusty sidekick John Baird may impress the Conservative base as they go swanning about the world standing tall and talking tough over the world’s problems. But what is the reality with respect to our military capabilities?

Has the Navy recovered from the misbehaviour that occurred with HMCS Whitehorse this past July and the mishap on HMCS Protecteur this past March? And while we have deployed CF-18s to Europe, the decision to replaced that aging vet (shelf date 2020) with the U.S. single-engine F-35 is repeatedly kicked into the long grass even though experts say it is not a suitable plane for the Arctic where the PM has just completed a photo-op exercise.

And what young Canadian would want to join our military knowing the indifference the government would exhibit toward them when they returned home?

No, the Lone Ranger and Tonto have little ammunition to back up their talk. As the expression goes, they are “all hat and no cattle.”

- PM’s military disconnect, TheStar.com, September 5, 2017.

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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.