Playing at Soldiers
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Over the past decade the most unpalatable fact of all is how inspirational the disgraced GWB’s War on Terror has become.
It still has long, strong legs in Ottawa and our media, despising anyone who observes that we are getting our arses kicked over there, or that the victims of torture in Afghan prisons may be largely goat-farmers and taxi-drivers who haven’t a clue what’s going on.
And of course our complicity and obvious cover-up, but I can just hear Hillier mocking this.
And of course our complicity and obvious cover-up, but I can just hear Hillier mocking this.
Incidentally this guy has never sustained a combat-wound of any sort, I’m mystified as to why he’s seen as such a hero.
Afghanistan is a cruel and expensive joke played on both our military and the Afghani people, now extending to our public servants.
Far too many of us are still waving the war-banner, led by the likes of Hillier and Mackay.
But why?
These two are gleefully furthering their careers on this folly, needIess to say at great cost and the trashing of our international reputation.
Hailed as a monument to the history of literacy, the first episode last night was… umm, watchable. But I’m sure TVO wouldn’t want us to luxuriate in literary smugness with our intellectual radar shut down. That would be an insult and disservice to this eight year magnum opus.
I don’t know if I can take any more of the war stuff. The wonderful M. Palin’s BBC doc last night on those killed after the “Great War” armistice…… I wept.