Sunday, August 19, 2007

Brit coverage of Afstan

One mildly positive story, two pretty gloomy (but note the newspapers)--a post at Milnet.ca.

Update: The Independent supports the war:
...We did not and do not support the invasion of Iraq, flawed in its justification and calamitous in its outcome, but we did accept the need for intervention in Afghanistan to root out the Taliban which was harbouring al-Qa'ida.

Iraq and Afghanistan are two different fronts, two very different campaigns. In Afghanistan the presence of our troops is justified and useful...
Meanwhile Liberal leader Stéphane Dion wants the prime minister to announce we are pulling out in February, 2009 without even the need for a vote in Parliament--his national defence critic, Denis Coderre, agrees of course (in the context of the death of a Canadian soldier).

1 Comments:

Blogger Cameron Campbell said...

"Separate but equal, and now equal too in pain. If only the nation could bear up as well as those young men I saw Sunday, through their tears packing up their dead friend's barrack box and rucksack."

Oh god I love Christie Blatchford.

8:32 p.m., August 20, 2007  

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