Lewis MacKenzie gets it right...
Always nice to see a piece by Lewis MacKenzie. In today's Globe & Mail, he goes after Jack Layton....and just leaves blood on the floor.
In other words, by leaving, we would be saying to the remaining 36 nations on the ground in Afghanistan, "Hey, guys, this is getting pretty difficult. We have decided to leave and go home, but don't worry, when the rest of you have put down this insurrection and things are peaceful, we will return and offer our vastly superior skills in putting countries back together. So please call us as soon as the shooting stops - for good."
For all those who, like Mr. Layton, say the mission is imprecise, unclear, without an exit strategy, etc., let me disagree and say that to a NATO military commander the mission is crystal clear.
It is to leave Afghanistan as quickly as humanly possible -- having turned the security of the country over to competent Afghan military and police forces controlled in their efforts by a democratically elected national government. Sounds pretty clear to me.
posted by GayandRight @ 4:32 PM
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Geez, I've lost track of how many editorials and op-ed pieces I've read tearing Layton's position to shreds. Yet not one, not even from Jack himself, that DEFENDS Jack's position.
And now the pollsters are telling us that more and more voters are agreeing with Jack ! Which I guess explains why Dosanjh was doing a 180 degree flip-flop on CTV today.
The battle for the illiterate voter is on !
I think this is the key:
It is to leave Afghanistan as quickly as humanly possible -- having turned the security of the country over to competent Afghan military and police forces controlled in their efforts by a democratically elected national government. Sounds pretty clear to me.
This is what I think needs to be stressed... that if our objective is to ensure the survival of the democratic Afghan government, and if we still believe in this objective, than we must face the obstinate members in the Taliban - negotiations with this group and pulling out, cannot, possibly, be the answer. If Jack and others think this goal is futile, than say so and advocate a full abandonment of the Afghan government. But you can't have it both ways.
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