Knowing, as I do, the left wing position to the war in Afghanistan, I have no doubt that Jack Layton's reason for now wanting to debate the war in Afghanistan has an ulterior motive and the indirect consequence of his political games will be undermining our troops over there. Layton has constantly changing reasons for wanting to debate this. That tells me he is playing games with this serious issue. The time to debate something like that is before you send our troops over there. Not after they are there. Where has he been since September 11, 2001?
Layton had that opportunity last year and was silent. One can almost predict he will get into bashing the Americans like the left wing Cathie from Canada , or like the left wing generally, and define some difference or expand on some distinction between Canada and Bush. I truly hope Layton doesn't get into undermining our troops and causing casualties while he tries to plug into the anti-Bush sentiment, but I know he will. And everyone will ignor him except for the Taliban and the media. If you go to war, you go completely committed, not with a bunch of prepositions.
I prefer the various news sources one gets at this site. That site collects and aggregates a daily collection of news stories that are credible and both positive and negative. It also has an archives feature to enable one to find yesterdays story's as well. I much prefer credible truth grounded on reality as opposed to left wing fear mongering and bleeding heart naivete.
A democratic Muslim country that is stable, at peace and grounded is the only way to deal with this threat to world peace presented by the Muslim approach to religion, society, politics, and war. What happens in places like Afghanistan threatens, and will someday affect, all of us back here at home. We saw that on 911.
A quick review of the headlines over the last few years says this problem about terrorism is widespread and must be confronted. Last month I watched the news about Muslims wanting to kill cartoonists in Denmark, over cartoons. Last year I watched Muslims blow up innocent people in those London subways. The year before I watched as Muslims killed school kids in Beslan, Russia by shooting them in the back. The year before that, I watched the news about Muslims blowing up people at a night club in Bali, Indonesia. The year before that I watched Muslims steer planes into the World Trade Center. This is only a partial list.
I suppose we could remain naive and ignor these events. Turn a blind eye to all of it and pretend the problem will go away on its own. That would be like ignoring what Hitler was doing in 1939 and basically brush it aside saying it does not affect us, so why get involved. We are traditional peacekeepers not defenders of any principles so why get involved. Let's leave the heavy lifting to the USA and Bush. That would be like saying in 1939 let's leave the heavy lifting regarding Hitler to Great Britain and Churchill. We cannot be so irreponsible. The USA ignored Hitler for two years after Canada got involved and it wasn't until 1941 that the USA finally got involved. There are some events you just can not ignor, try as you might.
The insanity of a religion that leads with fear and trumps democracy must be confronted whether it be by negotiation or by war. It is pretty hard too negotiate with someone who whacks you in the back of the head with an axe for even trying to talk peacefully. I honestly cannot distinguish between Fascism and Muslimism. They both insist theirs is the only way allowed and would kill any that would choose otherwise or disagree. One thinks of itself as the superior race. The other thinks of itself as the superior religion.
Afghanistan gives us the greatest opportunity to accomplish the disirable result peacefully or with the least amount of blood spilled.
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Personally, I think that this is a superb political move by Harper.
Let Jack have his debate.
The NDP will be obliged to support the gov't on another initiative.
Perhaps it will wake up the Canadian public on the disparaging of our military since dare I say Pierre Trudeau.
And the Libs today going on about Darfur...what can we do...nothing, we are irrelevant.
Time to spend the money on the renewal of the military instead of a childcare boondoggle!
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