A carpenter doing humanitarian work was murdered in Afghanistan, latest death of a Canadian in that god-forsaken land.
Like many of my fellow citizens, I have been following our involvement in Afghanistan with sadness and horror. 21 Canadians, including this latest one (a murder- but then war is murder) have been killed and the list of our wounded is growing.
Each death strikes at the heart of every caring Canadian and that includes, I’m certain, (well I’m not quite certain of this) the men who decided to send these young people so easily into the heart of danger. More will die in this conflict, that’s a tragic certainty.
Before the initial task was completed, Bush left everybody else in the lurch while he and Blair swaggered off to Iraq. I guess they liked the bombing so much they wanted to do more of it. Sort of like a Guy Fawkes Day and 4th of July all in one for those two bozos.
Anyway, we stepped in with our few guys not too well equipped to try to take up the slack and now we’re doing stuff that we were never intended to do…like combat missions. It’s not at all what we originally agreed to do. Not even remotely.
The mission was to assist in training the Afghan army, to assist in training the police and to assist in the reconstruction effort. That’s why it’s called the International Security ASSISTANCE Force duh.
The Afghan rebels and warlords are experienced guerilla fighters. It’s been a lifelong career for most of them and they’re good at it. They know the terrain and they can endure the climate.
The problem with the changed nature of the mission…how the hell did it get changed anyway?…that never came up in the so-called debate…anyway, the problem is this is an unwinnable war given our small number of soldiers and our lack of training in counter-insurgency tactics.
We’re there carrying water as I call it, for Bush. We’re the water boys and shoeshine guys.
Ironically, it was the Americans who boosted the Taliban to power by arming them against the Soviet occupation.
The U.S. also boosted bin Laden by recruiting radical Muslim fundaments from the Middle East and North Africa to join the fight against the Soviets. Some of them are now the cornerstones of al Qaeda cells in many countries; others are in Guantanamo Bay. Hardly any are in Afghanistan…they’ve mostly gone to Iraq and Somalia and other places God knows which ones.
It’s a sticky situation I think when the largest Super Power starts wars with other countries and then sells WMD’s to other terrorist countries to fight other terrorist countries. Welcome to modern day progressive hypocrisy in action. Now Canada is probably buying war machines from the U.S. to go fight in U.S. started wars.
These wars are started by the horrid foreign policies of both the U.S. and Britain,from years ago, and now the rest of the world is paying for it.
It’s so upsetting to lose one’s
country (Canada) and watch the
reputation worked so hard for by people like Lester B Pearson and Trudeau to leaders like Harper and Hillier, flaunting their minority opinions in our faces. I am incensed beyond belief with the transparency of the Karl Rove “we’re grateful you bombed us speeches” Everyday people like you and I are being trodden upon all over the world and no one is listening. They are too busy making their own “deals with the devil”. It’s very depressing to me.
me too sherry…but we need to keep our heads above the water our pm is carrying for bush after he gets his shoes shined.
It’s been said long ago and very well by Rabbie.Rogues and whores in a sickening clasp as our nation disintegrates.
Robert Burns (1759–1796)
Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation
FAREWEEL to a’ our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev’n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam’d in martial story.
Now Sark rins over Solway sands, An’ Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England’s province stands—
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro’ many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The English stell we could disdain, Secure in valour’s station;
But English gold has been our bane
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I’ll mak this declaration;
We’re bought and sold for English gold—
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
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