Comments on: Globe & Post: Canada, Afghanistan and Election 2008 http://jnarvey.com/2008/09/21/globe-post-canada-afghanistan-and-election-2008/ The essays, nerdy updates and literary adventures of Jonathon Narvey Tue, 22 May 2012 19:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: 2008 Currents Year In Review | Currents http://jnarvey.com/2008/09/21/globe-post-canada-afghanistan-and-election-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-812 2008 Currents Year In Review | Currents Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:53:45 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=417#comment-812 [...] Dedicated and hard-hitting journalist and author Terry Glavin reminds us again why we must stick to the mission in Afghanistan and ignore the heckles of so-called “peaceniks” who would abandon millions of Afghans [...] [...] Dedicated and hard-hitting journalist and author Terry Glavin reminds us again why we must stick to the mission in Afghanistan and ignore the heckles of so-called “peaceniks” who would abandon millions of Afghans [...]

]]> By: Earnest Canuck http://jnarvey.com/2008/09/21/globe-post-canada-afghanistan-and-election-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-811 Earnest Canuck Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:41:24 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=417#comment-811 Precisely so, Narvey. Layton is well aware that there ain't any tools in "the UN toolbox"; that when negotiators and multilateral politicos set up shop in places like Baghdad and Kandahar, the jihadis simply kill them, whereupon they retreat; and that the UN was "negotiating" in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of the Taliban's murderous misrule. Therefore he is advocating the immediate abandonment of Middle Eastern peoples to the cruellest clerico-barbarism imaginable, which is a funny position for someone who's big on international brotherhood, etc. Admittedly, the Tories only propose to postpone this abdication for a while, but we must take what we can get. It puzzles me that not one Canadian leader has made any clear statement about the threat of international Islamism, nor acknowledged that Afghanistan is just one front in what will be a long struggle. If the Taliban's recent butchery of WHO and Rescue Committee civilians doesn't clarify the situation for wets like Layton, well then, nothing will; and Canada will go down in history as The Nation That Pretended Fascism Didn't Exist. Precisely so, Narvey. Layton is well aware that there ain’t any tools in “the UN toolbox”; that when negotiators and multilateral politicos set up shop in places like Baghdad and Kandahar, the jihadis simply kill them, whereupon they retreat; and that the UN was “negotiating” in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of the Taliban’s murderous misrule.

Therefore he is advocating the immediate abandonment of Middle Eastern peoples to the cruellest clerico-barbarism imaginable, which is a funny position for someone who’s big on international brotherhood, etc. Admittedly, the Tories only propose to postpone this abdication for a while, but we must take what we can get. It puzzles me that not one Canadian leader has made any clear statement about the threat of international Islamism, nor acknowledged that Afghanistan is just one front in what will be a long struggle. If the Taliban’s recent butchery of WHO and Rescue Committee civilians doesn’t clarify the situation for wets like Layton, well then, nothing will; and Canada will go down in history as The Nation That Pretended Fascism Didn’t Exist.

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