Or Else ...What?

Jack Layton has taken control of the plum, Afghanistan airstrike issue, calling on Harper to demand an end to this tactic by US and NATO forces.

It's a good issue to grab. Surprising, in a way, that other opposition parties, including our own Liberals, haven't run with it before now.

The deplorable over-reliance on airpower by the Afghan Western forces is much easier to criticize than government corruption or even opium production. People just plain don't like the idea of our side bombing village kids into oblivion.

What Layton hasn't said is what he wants Harper to do should our side decline the suggestion. Leave Afghanistan perhaps?

I am disappointed with the lacklustre way Stephane Dion has handled the Afghanistan issue. He's certainly reinforcing the message that I get from people that this was a Liberal venture from the outset.

Just where is Dion anyway? He needs to take advantage of these summer months to really raise his profile but turn on the news and he's nowhere to be seen. Layton and Harper aren't wasting a single opportunity to speak out on just about anything. Dion wanted the job, he needs to act like he still wants it. I'm sure there are plenty of Liberal insiders who can tell me that Stephane has been busy doing this or that but the public sure as hell doesn't know that. To them, he's all but invisible.