The Global War Without End on Terror, aka the George Bush Initiative, aka Stephen Harper's
Dreamland has spiralled out of control. Bush, the man who has called everything wrong for five years running, is draining his nation's military resources in Baghdad in a futile attempt to salvage his legacy. The price for this vainglorious idiocy is being paid, not only by America's soldiers, but by ours also.
This man is so obsessed with criticism of his bungling of his war of choice against Iraq that his sole, legitimate war, Afghanistan, has fallen completly off his radar. He's so absorbed with the war he's already lost that he's indifferent to the other war that he's dooming to the same fate.
Why isn't George getting his priorities straight? Because those who are in the position to compel him to see reason - Blair and Harper, for example - won't shoulder their responsibility to their own soldiers. For they're driven by the same, sad impulses as Bush - their own political survival, their legacy.
When have any of us ever heard Mr. Harper or his lobbyist/defence minister/good old boy O'Conner ever have a candid discussion with Canadians of just what we're actually doing in Afghanistan and just how we intend to truly support our troops? We haven't and we're not going to any time soon.
Harper boasted about "Standing up for Canada" in his last election spiel. Why isn't he standing up for our soldiers? Harper and O'Conner can bitch endlessly about our NATO allies but, let's face it, this is America's fight. We're there because of events of 11 September, 2001. We're in Afghanistan only because Bush drained America's military power on his stupid adventure into Iraq.
It's time to send a clear message to Mr. Bush; either take Afghanistan seriously, as his nation's prime concern, or we'll follow suit and bring our soldiers home. They're far too valuable to Canada to leave them hanging out to dry on George Bush's incompetence.
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