Jesus, Mary, Mother of God, have these people not learned anything from the last few years? [emphasis added]
NDP demands answers on Afghanistan
O'Connor responds by calling critics anti-military
... The Defence Minister responded by calling the NDP anti-military. "This is the party that opposed membership in NATO a few years ago," he said. "I don't want to go back to World War II, but they don't want the military involved in anything. Does this party support our mission in Afghanistan or not?"
... Mr. O'Connor again made the case, as the Tories and senior military officers have repeatedly done in recent weeks, for why Canadian troops should be in harm's way in Afghanistan. "Events in Bali, Madrid and London have all showed how vulnerable we are to terrorism," he said. "Must we wait for terrorists to appear in Vancouver, Montreal or here in Ottawa before we recognize the very real threat that they present to our security?"
I believe it was Santayana who said, "Those who cannot remember the past are so stupid, they might as well join the Conservative Party of Canada."
Well, OK, he didn't really say that. But I'm pretty sure he was thinking it.
AFTERSNARK: And speaking of not learning from experience ...
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If you're against our mission in Afghanistan, you're against our troops, you cheese eating surrender monkey.
Coming soon: We're huntin' 'em down, smokin' 'em outta their holes and bringin' 'em to justice. {Pant, pant, drool.}
Also: When the Afghans stand up, we will stand down.
No, CC, they haven't learned anything. And they are betting that ordinary Canadians haven't either. After all, they did get elected. And what con could resist this opportunity to starve the beast and drown it in the bathtub. What a great way to spend all that otherwise wasted daycare money.
"And so it begins..."
Regards
P.S. Don't forget that tax cuts will fix everything.
> "Must we wait for terrorists to appear in Vancouver, Montreal or here in Ottawa before we recognize the very real threat that they present to our security?"
You know, when I heard that this morning, groggily waking up and listening to the news, my first thought was, "My, *they* don't quote Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld directly, do they? Nosirreebob."
The notion that we can keep the terrorists occupied over there so that they don't come over here is the now thoroughly-discredited "flypaper theory"of anti-terrorism.
One wag suggested that it makes as much logical sense as building an extremely dirty hospital so that you can attract all of the germs and fight them on your terms.
I trust I don't need to explain the analogy.
hmmm. I forgot the "flypaper theory" this morning.
Remember the "Domino theory"?
That went well, as I recall.
Regards
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