"Prison break"
Bruce Rolston does a nice job on a certain professor:
While the break is certainly extremely embarrassing, at the least, it hardly indicates that all our efforts at Kandahar have been for naught, as the good professor would have one believe. Just as the attack on president Karzai at a Kabul ceremony several weeks ago did not indicate his government is in imminent danger of collapse. Rather these assaults indicate that there is still a long way to go, which we all knew very well anyway.
Update: On a smaller scale, but should we think that Brazil might be consigned to the dustbin of history? But do read the whole link.
Upperdate: See Norman Spector's TODAY'S DISHONESTY, June 16.
Prof. Attaran, in an interview on CTV's "Question Period" today by Craig Oliver--together with his comrade in journalistic arms Paul Koring of the Globe and Mail, had the chutzpa to say he is "a Canadian Forces sympathizer" (05:37 on the video here). Hurl to the bloody max. Mr Oliver, at the end of the show, was idiotic enough to compare the break with the Vietcong's 1968 Tet Offensive (read this on the American media and Tet). All you need to know about how much of our major media "think"--and how shallow is their knowledge.Well, that's one way to close the Afghan detainee file.
Reports that Canadian law professor Amir Attaran has criticized the Taliban for not correctly filling out the 1,005 copies of prisoner release paperwork correctly are, unfortunately, completely untrue.
While the break is certainly extremely embarrassing, at the least, it hardly indicates that all our efforts at Kandahar have been for naught, as the good professor would have one believe. Just as the attack on president Karzai at a Kabul ceremony several weeks ago did not indicate his government is in imminent danger of collapse. Rather these assaults indicate that there is still a long way to go, which we all knew very well anyway.
Update: On a smaller scale, but should we think that Brazil might be consigned to the dustbin of history? But do read the whole link.
Upperdate: See Norman Spector's TODAY'S DISHONESTY, June 16.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 1:55 p.m.
1 Comments:
Almost as offensive as Messieurs Attaran and Koring is the Eric Margolis column entitled "A line not to be crossed" in today's Toronto Sun. Why he isn't writing this tripe for it's more natural home in the Star or Globe & Mail is baffling.
Among other things, it's an insult to all the brave Allied troops who are serving or have served in Af-stan. They are Liberators and, to paraphrase Churchill, so few have done so much for so many.
It's written with equal parts of uninformed military ignorance, historical ignorance and misinformation peacenik and anti-US bias. I'm not inclined to cut him or his paper any slack for this column. If he wants to represent himself as a national-caliber journalist and if the Toronto Sun considers itself a serious newspaper, they failed with this column. They ought to know all the (readily available to the non-lazy public via the Internet) facts and present them ALL, in an unbiased and stylistically coherent manner.
Once upon a time, that was more or less the generally agreed-upon professional ideal of serious North American journalists and papers.
IMO, Margolis' article is a serious contender for the Daily Bird-Cage Liner Award.
Sadly for us all, he's certainly not alone. What a wretched job most of the North American MSM is doing! From major papers over all of North America, we get intellectually lazy leftist propaganda.
It's not even well-written propaganda. My high standards-demanding 12th grade English teacher demanded better quality writing from her students. And she pretty much got it. What the Maureen Dowds, the Eric Margolises and the Paul Korings of modern pseudo-journalism excrete for their reading public is pathetic.
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