For those of you not already in the know, yours truly in addition to being a Liberal happens also to be a Red Tory and dare I say it, a Segalist. (some prefer Segalite) but I like the ring of the former better.
Conservative Senator Hugh Segal with his remarks today is suggesting that we will continue to need a military component in Afghanistan after July 2011 in order to protect our aid workers.
That strikes me as eminently logical. But it also brings up the question as to whether every country's military presently in that nation is charged with protecting its own nationals working on humanitarian projects. Maybe yes, maybe no.
In any event, something will indeed have to be put in place by someone to assure security for Canadian and other humanitarian groups on the ground in Afghanistan.
Sometimes I wonder why they don't just change the name of that country to Rubik's Cube...
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What is sad, Ignatieff has already ruled out any extension. Is his leadership so weak now, the left with the ranks would break with him?
ReplyDeleteThe PM did not follow previous Liberal PM and decided to diffuse this by getting a Manely Report and a consensus. Dion lost the vote to kill the mission and ended his leadership.
Bob, Mike with a few others broke rank remember?
The PM made a case to the world, its leaders with the Manley Report. The Government has been taking a beating for not getting Natio to step up for years.
Politics is a bloodsport, and the opposition never supported the mission and have used it to as an issue to weaken the government.
A pull back and a majority is in order to correct the left, until we get that majority many people will continue to suffer human right abuses at the hand of despots and dictators because we lack the political will in parliament.
Same with a free trade deal. The NDP have never supported a single deal.
CanadianSense,
ReplyDeleteI remain opposed to an extension but I do see the logic in Senator Segal's point about providing security for our aid workers.
One more thing. Canada does not have the military capacity nor should it in my view have the inclination to be the world's "do-gooder".
Nations and their individual populations have to be responsible for developing good governance methods in their own countries.
Our job isn't that of world police officer. I'm all for helping out under very limited circumstances but I would not go beyond that.