However, one wonders why we Canadians tend to be such nice guys, who are unwilling to rattle the cage — even when the deck is grossly and unfairly stacked up against us. Ditch the misogynyRe: What Glass Ceiling Has She Shattered?, Rex Murphy, Aug. 20. ISIL fighters were funded by the Sunni Arab Gulf states and infiltrated into Syria, not Iraq, by Turkey to take down the Alawite-Shia regime of Bashar Assad. With little to fear, 3,000 ISIL fighters then crossed into Iraq from Syria, not the other way around. The Sunni-Shia divide is behind every major crisis in the Middle East from Syria to Iraq and on to the Saudi-Iranian stand-off.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 19:41 UTC