This is a great article from www.cjunk.blogspot.com it really gives it to Taliban Jack and his granola people. (Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts)
It usually takes time and a memory that lasts more than a few months to catch people at disingenuous political games. But, if one is patient, and if one waits, any phony political position will usually be brought to the light of day. This maxim is true for everyone involved in political discourse, no matter their bent. The only restriction one may want to consider, is that over extended periods of time people do genuinely change positions on issues, but waffling on major political conceptualizations within even several years, usually points to fraud.
So it is today with the “progressive” class. Canada’s intrepid defender of Canadian “progressive” values, Jack Layton, is calling for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Even though his utterings on the matter are incredibly vague and couched in more utopian platitudes than a Noam Chomsky thesis, they do boil down to one thing; the Afghan conflict is one that Canada needs to get out of.
First, let’s consider the crowing and braying that pierced the air a few years ago when the United States was poising itself to invade Iraq. You remember, the peace marches, the pontificating, and above all:
“The War in Iraq is illegal because it is not United Nations sanctioned!”
… and a thousand and one derivatives there of. In a nut shell, Jack Layton and millions of his clones across Canada preached the notion of United Nations supremacy in deciding which conflict was or was not justified. Worship at the alter of United Nations divine supremacy in matters of war and peace was the first thing on every single living and breathing progressive's lips. Those of us on the right were subjected to it constantly as were our representatives in politics.
Fast forward a year or two and put your ear to the “progressive” airwaves on Afghanistan. Not an utterance about the UN. Not a sniff; not a muttering of United Nations supremacy and leadership. Instead, just nay saying and shameless American bashing and even more shameless talk of retreat.
Yet, the Afghan mission is UN sanctioned. The Canadian mission in Afghanistan has the full blessing of the United Nations, and what’s more, the UN is asking for more NATO forces and greater freedom to root out and drive out the Taliban.
If you missed that, I’ll say it again. The UN is asking for more NATO troops and more freedom for NATO to do the dirty work of crushing the barbarians and reconstructing the South.
For some strange reason which completely escapes me at the moment, the MSM failed to report this week, that the top UN man in Afghanistan, Tom Koenigs, is asking for an expansion of NATO in the south and a lifting of restrictive rules of engagement and movement. Got that, the most holy church of “progressivism” is asking us to stay and to become even more involved in Afghanistan. Yet, what does Jack and his entourage do; call for withdrawal. At about this point I’d say something about fishy smells and Denmark… but the Danes are in Afghanistan.
On a secondary note, let’s consider the moaning from Jack that Canadians should be involved in reconstruction… just like in northern Afghanistan, as he put it today on John Gormley live. He preached on this point, knowing full well that NATO is currently involved in thousands… not hundreds, but thousands of reconstruction and aid projects in southern Afghanistan alone. If he doesn’t know this fact, then his sheer ignorance should eliminate him from serious discussion. If he does know this fact, which he must, then once again he is being a subtle liar. Canada is already doing what he suggests. Our forces are involved heavily in aid, and will continue to do so.
Third, Mr. Layton today pointed to the recent peace arrangement between the Pakistan government and tribes along its northern border with Afghanistan as an example that negotiations are the only way forward. He used this fact to show that offensive actions are not the “way forward”. What he knows, and what he did not tell us, was that the northern border tribes of Pakistan have been under constant harassment, surveillance, and attack by American and Pakistani forces. The northern tribes have taken a beating for years now and they “must” come to the table or face degradation that would make them irrelevant.
You see, by attacking and wearing down these barbarians, the conditions were made for peace talks; just like they were at the termination of any other war we have won. Jack, by ignoring this fact is playing the typical game of the lying car sales men… “if I don’t tell them that the motor is screwed, and they don’t ask, did I really lie?”
Let’s recall that the “progressive” class has positioned itself as the Robin Hood of modern times, the champion of the down trodden, the voice of the dispossessed. Then, consider the fall-out were NATO to withdraw from Southern Afghanistan this coming February, as Jack suggests. (Surely, if Canada is to withdraw, so should the rest of the neocon army) Millions of Afghans have embraced democracy and our presence and the barbarism that would sweep the south once we left would rival Rwanda in scope of massacre. Jack cares not one stitch for the down trodden. His actions say it louder than all the pious utterances that constantly pour out of his “Canadian values” utopian maw. Jack is no Robin Hood; and neither are “progressives”.
And finally, let us consider the outright lie that most “progressives” feed us daily; that they support the troops. Setting aside talk of patriotism and the right to disagree yet support the troops, we must look at the one fact that proves, beyond a doubt, that Jack and his “progressive” rabble (.ca) lie. If they support the troops, they would at least consider for a moment what those serving in the forces have to say on the matter. “Progressives” would consider what the average soldier, either on base in Borden or lying wounded in a hospital bed in Edmonton “thinks”.
But, don’t hold your breath. “Progressives” never consider what soldiers have to say. “Progressives” consider soldiering to be beneath them… otherwise, they’d talk to and give enormous weight to what our men and women in uniform have to say on the issue of Afghanistan. Considering that the Canadian HQ in Kandahar has a higher average IQ than your standard college faculty, … or any political caucus for that matter, wouldn’t the opinion of the men and women serving count for something. Not considering what the troops “think”, shows contempt, arrogance, and an elitism that should sicken every true social democrat.
There is one thing Jack could say that would clear the air and exonerate him and his utopian fellows:
Jack could admit that the “progressive” class he represents are pacifists. Then, all that he says and what his NDP peddle would make perfect honest sense. It’s amazing what a little bit of truth would tell.
