Yet another agenda-driven Globe and Mail headline
Eddie Greenspon's anti-Afghan mission minions are at it again:
'Dramatic' Taliban resurgence detailedAround eight months ago:
This grim assessment of Afghan reality was prepared last November by the International Assessment Staff of the Privy Council Office, which effectively acts as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government department...As for the Taliban resurgence, the situation in Kandahar province this year seems to have changed substantially, though their strength in Helmand province, where the Brits are, is worrying.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 9:39 a.m.
4 Comments:
the report was written last November ?
Some resurgence. The vaunted Taliban Spring Offensive was a total failure. The NATO special Forces campaign to target their leadership was and continues to be an outstanding success. The only thing the Taliban can do is revert to hide & seek homicide bomber attacks that kill more innocent civilians than NATO troops.
Where is the great socialist Complaint & Victim industry's campaign to highlight this taregeting of civilians ?
Where is Am-nutty International ? I suspect they are too busy putting all there resources into another rehash of Abu Gharaib or holding press conferences to get our young Mr Khadr back to Canada from his Caribbean sojourn.
I've said it before, and I say it again:
Why don't reporters/media outlets make the ATIP'ed material they receive available to the public? Afraid we'll draw our own conculsions? Worries that the stories won't exactly reflect the documents?
C'mon, we dare you, MSM....
Given how quickly the operational realities on the ground change, as detailed by Col Cessford in this article, is anyone else thinking the Globe and Mail should have gotten an archaeologist to write this piece instead of a reporter?
Just because the work to be done in Afghanistan might take years doesn't mean that the change in circumstances in eight months isn't significant.
Not to mention the fact that the statements they've supposedly used to contrast a public vs. private gov't assessment aren't necessarily contradictory. It is possible to be making significant progress and still have a long way to go before you're done.
This is "gotcha!" journalism at it's sleaziest.
Babbling: I've e-mailed Mr Greenspon this post.
Mark
Ottawa
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