Apparently, someone has kidnapped the editorial board of the National Post and replaced them with a jar of Folger's Crystals:
The Liberals' proposal may be popular among the party's MPs, and may even find favour with some voters. But it would undo all the good done so far by our mission, and thereby render futile the sacrifices of the 78 Canadian soldiers who have paid the ultimate price.
Translation: We can only feel good about dead Canadian soldiers if we kill more of them.
Man, that sounds depressingly familiar.
BY THE WAY, let's not forget what noble ideals Canadian soldiers have been dying for:
Afghan senate backs death penalty
Afghanistan's upper house of parliament has issued a statement backing a death sentence for a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan.
Pervez Kambakhsh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article insulting Islam. He has denied the charge.
Yes, the Afghan government does seem to have backtracked from that initial death sentence lately but, really, the fact that the case got that far is not a good sign.
Stephen Harper and Canada's military: Spreading Afghan freedom and democracy, one death row journalism student at a time.
6 comments:
The people who are ultimately responsible for the deaths of Canadian soldiers, and for ensuring that they were futile deaths, are the asshole politicians who sent them on a futile mission.
Second to blame are the mouth-breathing crypto-fascist human garbage who cheered it on, for instance the Blogging Tories.
I used to think that what Canada's Afghanistan policy needed was honest debate. But it's long past that. War crimes have been committed. The entire operation has been a clusterfuck.
If the National Post owners love ths war so much, let them browbeat their own kids to join up and defend Karzai and the US. They can train with Rosie DiManno.
But it would undo all the good done so far by our mission
Hey.
Afghanistan has dropped a place in a UN global human development index, which ranks countries based on their citizens’ economic income, life expectancy and literacy rate, according to the country’s National Human Development Report (NHDR) for 2007.
Afghanistan was ranked 174th out of 178 countries - ahead of only Burkina Faso, Mali, Sierra Leone and Niger. In Afghanistan’s first-ever human development report, which was released in 2004, the country was ranked 173rd and was widely expected to improve its human development indicators.
Maybe with a few more years of our good work we can get Afghanistan all the way up to #178.
Quite so. The well has long-since been poisoned by politics when it comes to any sort of "honest debate" about the so-called "mission" in Afghanistan.
By the way, what's happening with Pakistan's ambassador to our lovely new Jeffersonian democracy who was kidnapped several days ago?
Hmm well at least the Connies are being consistent about not caring if people suffer the death penalty.
How come you fail to aknowledge any of the good things done hby the war in Afganistan, such as removing the Taliban from power? Do you believe that the Taliban was a better government than a democratic government? Do you support the subjugation of women and the execution of people who disagree with islam? No? I didn't think you did. They why do you think that the Taliban shouldn't ahve been deposed?
Furthermore, if we pull out of Afganistan before the job is done, it realy will "render futile the sacrifices of the 78 Canadian soldiers who have paid the ultimate price". One of the worst things you can do to a country is march in, take out the leadershihp, then leave. We are there now; we should stay until the Afganistan government is stablee and secure.
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