tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post599929741712855875..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Right to Starve Women - And the Band Played on in KabulThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26411952140457926222009-08-15T07:30:10.745-07:002009-08-15T07:30:10.745-07:00Morning mos, sorry for the confusion, I wasn't...Morning mos, sorry for the confusion, I wasn't very clear yesterday in my last comment. <br /><br />I had to take off for the rest of the day and just wondered if you might create a new entry focusing on the <i>Times</i> story, simply to give it a wider audience.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17496399033349383306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80334743135985899642009-08-14T13:37:32.236-07:002009-08-14T13:37:32.236-07:00What do you have in mind Christian? The whole pur...What do you have in mind Christian? The whole purpose of this blog is to bring information to the attention of others to get people thinking about what's going on and what it might mean. If you have some ideas on getting that out I'm all ears.<br /><br />MD, I hope like hell you're wrong. Then again I hoped Dion would stick to his absolute bottom line "out in '09" too.<br /><br />If you go back to my posts at that time I emphasized that these serial extensions were a sham because you can't get NATO and the Pentagon to agree they'll replace you AFTER you've agreed to extend. You have to negotiate that as a condition of extension.<br /><br />I wrote to the senior leadership of the Liberal Party way back when to make them alive to that point but, if they did understand it, they totally ignored it.<br /><br />I wrote to Ujal Dosanjh providing a short list of key questions that ought to be raised in the parliamentary debates on Afghanistan. Not so much as a 'thank you' and not one of those questions was raised.<br /><br />It's one thing when the other team pulls this crap but when it's your side popping the sleeping pills it's stomach churning.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43095227257060521692009-08-14T13:18:34.296-07:002009-08-14T13:18:34.296-07:00Well said Mos. The best part is still to come howe...Well said Mos. The best part is still to come however I fear. The head of Nato has just asked for Canada's troops to stay longer. How long until the joint Harper, Ignatieff press conference where they announce they plan to keep the troops there for another two years? After all it is much too important an issue to fight an election over. It will be done and Canada's nightmare will continue.Militant Dipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834474561214759967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-51526722483807722412009-08-14T12:11:03.484-07:002009-08-14T12:11:03.484-07:00Hey MOS, if I may make a suggestion? Would you con...Hey MOS, if I may make a suggestion? Would you consider sharing that report with a wider audience? You are far more capable of giving it it's due than I am. Folks should know what the hell is going on.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17496399033349383306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74225903614168506482009-08-14T11:17:50.325-07:002009-08-14T11:17:50.325-07:00Hey Christian, thanks for the link. Anyone readin...Hey Christian, thanks for the link. Anyone reading this ought to check it out because it's replete with disturbing anecdotal examples of just how pervasive and debilitating corruption has become amidst our side, our supposed 'friends' in Afghanistan. The one thing that's left unsaid is that it's largely because of the environment we have created with our military presence and our inadequately controlled aid, that this corruption is able to flourish like this.<br /><br />This disgusting level of corruption requires a helpless population that can't resist these predators. Can we not see how, in doing this, we drive the civilian population straight into the arms of the Taliban?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-67296560533114085362009-08-14T10:41:36.315-07:002009-08-14T10:41:36.315-07:00If only I could articulate as well as you, Mound. ...If only I could articulate as well as you, Mound. Great comment.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/world/asia/02iht-corrupt.1.19050534.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">Here is the link</a> to that report, although I must admit my mistakes. It was the <i>New York Times</i>, and it was $100,000 to become police chief. A worthy read.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17496399033349383306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30467464873138258512009-08-14T10:24:09.987-07:002009-08-14T10:24:09.987-07:00Weak political leadership combined with military c...Weak political leadership combined with military careerism creates just the environment for continuous, inconclusive warfare.<br /> <br />If these jokers were a genuine, existential threat to Western civilization does anyone believe we would have put up such a weak, ineffective effort?<br /><br />I have great sympathy for the Afghan people, particularly the women and children we've let down, but I also have enormous sympathy for the soldiers whose lives we've fed into the gaping maw of this dark farce.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-32772969845894853582009-08-14T10:14:15.512-07:002009-08-14T10:14:15.512-07:00p.s, in my previous comment I didn't intend to...p.s, in my previous comment I didn't intend to overlook the obvious insanity of this new legislation, it was more a response to your first paragraph, MOS. Nothing coming out of Afghanistan surprises me anymore.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17496399033349383306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-22711144433776062002009-08-14T10:02:26.674-07:002009-08-14T10:02:26.674-07:00Why do you hate the troops, Mound Of Sound? (wingn...Why do you hate the troops, Mound Of Sound? (wingnut talking point out of the way) <br /><br />There was a great report from,if I remember correctly, the <i>Online Times</i>, a few months ago highlighting just how deep corruption runs within the current government. <br /><br />For example, druglords and politicians living side by side in the poshest communities in Kabul. Paying $80,000 to get the job of police chief , on and on. I don't have much time at the moment, but I'll leave a link here when I find it.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17496399033349383306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-57218737561167404952009-08-14T09:55:54.356-07:002009-08-14T09:55:54.356-07:00You're right on that LD. One thing the Taliba...You're right on that LD. One thing the Taliban did that helped usher them in in the first place was to rescue little boys from the powerful bastards who had scooped them off the street to bugger them.<br /><br />Somewhere on this blog you'll find a post about a New York Times article back in 2002-3 that described how, in the wake of the Taliban's departure, child buggery - even by police forces - had returned and was alive and well in that rancid shithole of a country.<br /><br />50-year old men selling their pre-pubescent daughters to other 50-year old men and, when the kids refuse, they get slammed into women's prisons indefinitely. One of these prisons is just down the road from the main gate of Canada's garrison in Kandahar.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1607282388967509972009-08-14T09:46:25.756-07:002009-08-14T09:46:25.756-07:00Just "sick" is the only way to describe ...Just "sick" is the only way to describe it. And off topic but related...anywhere negative attitudes toward women (and that goes on here right in Canada) where women are considered objects of a man's lower half happens because it is allowed. After all men are "programmed" to have sex on demand because it is just the way they are...how many times have I heard women in this country say...."well, he is a man". Afghanistan is not unique. I do agree, we have no business there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8631968994921803532009-08-14T09:26:52.576-07:002009-08-14T09:26:52.576-07:00Afghanisnam. It will become the damnation of this...Afghanisnam. It will become the damnation of this generation.foottothefirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76115682125527286412009-08-14T08:20:08.815-07:002009-08-14T08:20:08.815-07:00Actually some human rights organizations have poin...Actually some human rights organizations have pointed out that since invasion in 2001 the rape cases have skyrocketed including those of young boys. Poverty is so bad that parents are selling their young girls to meet the needs. Also addiction to opium has greatly increased with similar outcome as poverty that is parents selling their children to meet the need for their addiction. I am not sure what we are achieving in Afghanistan.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.com