Review: Canada: Salute!
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300315 |
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
CANADA
support
network,
who
looked
easy
Reviews
by
Graham
Fraser
to
pillory,
who
was
lowest
on
the
Globe
andMail
totem
pole:
Trooper
Elvin
Kyle
Brown.'
SCAPEGOAT
Some
of
the
biases
in
the
book
How
the
army betrayed
Kyle
Brown
are
clearly
laid
out
in
the
title;
oth-
Peter
Worthington
and
Kyle
Brown
ers
emerge in
Worthington's
view
Toronto:
Seal
Books-Bantam,
1997,
that
language
policy
has
been
one
of
xvii,
338
pp,
$8.99
paper
the
principal
causes
of
the rot
in
the
Canadian military. But the
defence
of
Brown
is
an
eloquent
one,
and
P
ersonal
narrative
often
provides
the
book
provides dozens
of
useful
a
useful
counterpoint
to
more
insights
into
the shameful episode
distanced
forms
of
description.
This and
what
it
revealed
about
the
state
is
an
account,
as
seen
through
the
of
the
Canadian army.
As
the com-
eyes
of
the man
who
was
convicted
missioners
of
the
Somalia
enquiry
of
torture and
manslaughter,
of
the
put
it:
'the
actions, decisions, and
shocking
events
that
occurred
on
16
responses
of
the senior political
and
March
1993
at
the
Belet
Huen
military
leadership
in
relation
to the
compound
in
Somalia
where Sidane
March 16th
incident
have
yet
to
be
Abukar
Arone
was
tortured
to
thoroughly and
adequately
explored
death.
Peter
Worthington
conclud- and
understood.'
By
providing one
ed
that
Kyle
Brown
had
been man's
experience
and testimony,
unfairly
blamed
for
the
incident
fol-
Worthington
has
made
a
valuable
lowing
the
suicide
attempt
of
contribution
to
that
necessary
M/Cpl
Clayton
Matchee.
'Had
exploration.
Matchee
gone
to
trial,
Brown
would
likely have
been
a
Crown
witness
SALUTE!
and
praised
for his
honesty, integri-
Canada's
great
military
leaders
from
ty,
candour
and
concern,'
Wor-
Brock
to Dextrase
thington
writes.
'But
without
Arthur
Bishop
Matchee
to
stand
trial
and/or
take
Toronto:
McGraw
Hill-Ryerson,
1997,
full
responsibility,
someone
else,
or
xiii,
26 4
pp,
$29.99
others
had
to
be
found
to
carry
the
guilt
...
There
was
only
one
obvious
If
old-fashioned
story-telling,
tales
candidate,
one
individual
who
had
of
heroism and
flag-waving,
has
fall-
talked,
who
was
the
best source
en
into
disfavour
among
historians
about
what
had
gone
on
in
the
pit
and
journalists,
it
is
the
bread
and
that
night,
who
had no
power,
no
butter
of
public
relations.
Arthur
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