Afstan: Who cares?
Further to this post, watch this CTV video with Rob Huebert, Associate Director, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary.
Reflect again on this--and this.
Update: Watch the Canadian commander in Afghanistan, especially from 03:30, about certain realities.
Upperdate: Some of what Brigadier-General Denis Thompson said (from a story by Graeme Smith of the Globe and Mail):
Reflect again on this--and this.
Update: Watch the Canadian commander in Afghanistan, especially from 03:30, about certain realities.
Upperdate: Some of what Brigadier-General Denis Thompson said (from a story by Graeme Smith of the Globe and Mail):
...And a thoughful editorial in the paper:
"During my short time in Kandahar province, a female civilian member of our task force was set on fire, a man had his eyes gouged out in front of his family, children have been used as suicide bombers to attack security forces, a bus load of young men was executed and young girls had their faces sprayed with acid on their way to school," the commander said.
"Canadians serving here in Afghanistan are not the type of people to sit idly by while insurgents commit these terrible atrocities on the local population," he said. "Standing up to terror and injustice is not easy, and it's not without a cost, but the implications of not taking a stand are even more unimaginable to those of us serving here."..
A test of our national resolveRaphael Alexander links to an earlier post of Babbling's at the end of this:
Dear Mainstream Canadian Media: You Make Me SickMore, from Christie Blatchford and Rosie DiManno respectively, two stalwarts with..:
Mourn these soldiers. Admire them. But don't dare pity them
Canadian troops mark a tragic milestone
What they represent, collectively, is military professionalism and a willingness to sacrifice
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 4:49 p.m.
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Christie & Rosie could show up at any Mess anytime anywhere and they would be the special guests for the duration.
They get soldiers, they get their loyalty, their sense of duty, their willingness to sacrifice.
They must be the two most uncomfortable reporters in Toronto being surrounded by multitudes of the "Peace at any Price" crowd of delusional socialists and liberals.
Good on ya girls . . . you are doing a wonderful thing for our troops.
The Current this morning was practically rolling in pious pity like a dog on a dead fish. During the program they even read out all of the names of those killed. Not a word of course as to why our troops are over there or what they have accomplished.
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