Say it with me: RE - AL - I - TY
Mr. Dion, Mr. Duceppe, Mr. Layton take note: this is what "reconstruction" looks like in southern Afghanistan. It happens to be a Digger unit, but it could as well be one of ours.
Now, if we actually want to be engaged in development activities, we have two choices: we can either proactively go get the bad guys concurrently with the development work, or we can wait for the bad guys to attack our projects time after time. I'd say the correct answer is nothing more than common sense, but I'm not sure that would mean anything to you politicians. Instead, I want you to think of yourself in the place of one of the people doing the rebuilding work: do you want to tie one hand behind the back of the people keeping the misogynistic, torturing, fratricidal fanatics from killing you, or do you want them to have the freedom to defend you and your developing project in whatever way they believe works best?
So much for your caveats.
BZ to the Digger engineers putting their largely underappreciated tails on the line in order to help rebuild Afghanistan for Afghans. And thanks to Aussie reader FM for pointing us to the video in the first place.
Now, if we actually want to be engaged in development activities, we have two choices: we can either proactively go get the bad guys concurrently with the development work, or we can wait for the bad guys to attack our projects time after time. I'd say the correct answer is nothing more than common sense, but I'm not sure that would mean anything to you politicians. Instead, I want you to think of yourself in the place of one of the people doing the rebuilding work: do you want to tie one hand behind the back of the people keeping the misogynistic, torturing, fratricidal fanatics from killing you, or do you want them to have the freedom to defend you and your developing project in whatever way they believe works best?
So much for your caveats.
BZ to the Digger engineers putting their largely underappreciated tails on the line in order to help rebuild Afghanistan for Afghans. And thanks to Aussie reader FM for pointing us to the video in the first place.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 9:48 a.m.
4 Comments:
A pleasure.
When the libs say they want to withdraw the troops but keep the construction work ongoing I wonder if they are that dumb or just lying and willing to leave some aid workers there to be killed then pull them out too and say well we can't let them be killed.
Hard, dangerous, useful work.
I was impressed that the video was, apparently, made by the forces themselves. No "on the other hand" media commentary.
The Canadian forces should look into that.
Jay, the CF does do it. Combat Camera does video, as does Army News. I know someone whose footage on HMCS Toronto got onto CNN when the volcano erupted and the crew rescued a Yemeni soldier.
We just don't publicize it particularly well.
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