Category: Afghanistan

Well, well; will you just look at this? It seems that in spite of all the liberal media’s, hounding, coaching, weeping and wailing, pissing and moaning, doomsaying and God only knows what else about the alleged faltering will of the Canadian public over the mission in Afghanistan, most of us just don’t seem to be getting the message.

That’s right; just like before, yet another poll has showed that the Canadian stance toward securing clear victory in the Afghan War is hardening, not wavering. Yessiree, it seems that us simpletons of the Great Unwashed just can’t get our little heads around the fact that the best way to deal with a tyrannical regime like the Taliban is to just run away and hide and hope that someone else will take care of the problem (preferrably the Yanks, so that we can criticize them for their intolerance later).

Sometimes I almost like polls, especially when they look like this:

If anything demonstrates just how far some people’s heads can be heaved up their backsides, the recent moanings and groanings about the slow progress of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province does it in spades. Bleating bobbleheads like Taliban Jack! and Mr Dithers have been lamenting that we haven’t build enough schools, haven’t laid enough roads, haven’t [fill in the damn blank] enough, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The bellyaching’s getting so bad, it’s even starting to rub off on the guys on the ground like Lt.-Col. Simon Hetherington, who’s in charge of the PRT:

“We have had a lull, we need to get moving, I recognize that. I’m a simple guy. ‘Show me the schools you’ve built, show me the roads you’ve built, show me all that stuff.’ I can’t show you that now. If you come back in three months and you ask the same question, ‘What have you done?’ and I have the same answer . . . I’m probably going to be on a plane home because I’ll be fired.”

Not what I want to hear, and not something that any soldier wants to be saying either; believe me on that one. What gnaws my nether region the most, though, is that everybody (and I do mean everybody) seems to be missing the point here. The point is not that we haven’t built a bunch of schools. The point is not that we aren’t proceeding with reconstruction as fast as we planned. The point is, in fact, a question: Just why the hell were we ever saddled with such unrealistic expectations to begin with?

Now, before anybody decides to release the hounds, don’t get me wrong. The Afghanistan war (it is a war, don’t fool yourselves) is a winnable war and we’re the ones who are going to win it. Period.

But how the hell did we end up thinking that we were just going to waltz in and start having schools and hospitals popping up like daisies?? As the late Captain Nichola Goddard once remarked to her father, “you can’t do those things when the bad guys are charge; they just shoot you and move on.” Do we really think that anything, anything at all, can be accomplished while the Taliban are still running around?

Hi there, ladies and gents! I’m Floyd Bobblegrit, reporting to you live from beautiful downtown Kandahar where Canadian Forces personnel, local officials and a host of other dignitaries are gathered today to mark the grand opening of the brand new Jackiban Memorial Middle School today. Built by the men and women of Canada’s PRT, using manpower that was being previously wasted on combat operations under the delusional leadership of the previous Harper government, Jackiban Memorial will be the first ever all-girls’ school in Afghanistan. With a capacity for over 800 students and fully [BOOM] modern… what the hell was that!?!?

The Taliban are a backward, medieval and yes, evil cult who view anything that lifts the Afghan people out of the pit of fear ignorance as a threat. This includes hospitals, clinics, movie theaters and schools that let people without a penis in the door. The Taliban do not debate with things that they feel threaten them; they destroy them. Until we have clear military victory, reconstruction is a pipe dream.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is one damned inconvenient truth.

[Because of the perverse glee that I get from watching Debbie and Alex poke at each other, this has become one of my favourite threads. As a result, it is the only one to be migrated from the old blog with comments intact (manually, no less). It’s just so much fun…]

This didn’t take as long as I thought. Taliban Jack!, Canada’s answer to Neville Chamberlain, was seen in the company of the talking high foreheads at the Ministry of What You Should Think today mewling that he didn’t want Canadian troops to bugger off out of Afghanistan after all. Seems that poor Jack! only said that our boys should just be moved to the northern part of the country and that the MSM just twisted everything around to make him look like a disloyal doofus.

Right. And David Duke’s just a misunderstood civil rights champion.

Lyin’ Layton is, of course, so full of shit that his hair hasn’t room to take root anymore. There was no doubt whatsoever as to what he was saying at the recent Dipper convention. The only thing that has changed is that his gutless disloyalty is now threatening to come back and bite him on the ass at the polls. And let’s face it, this was never about respect for our troops, Canada’s image, or any of the other bullshit that the Dippers will toss out.

It was about scrounging a few more votes out of the anti-Bush crowd, period. So now the Not Democratic Party will do what all good little Lefties do when they realise that their balderdash will cost them more than it will gain: flip and flop as they twist in the wind of public opinion from the extreme left.

I came across this over at PTBC and won’t bother trying to explain it. Suffice it to say that this is something that every true Canadian should watch and think long and hard about whenever thinking about what we’re doing in Afghanistan…

Click here to see the video.

Does anybody else remember how, not so long ago, Aiman al-Zawahiri (the number 2 turd on the al-Quaeda manure pile) was blabbing his sorry arse off about how Canadians were nothing but “second rate crusaders?” Remember how he was burbling on that we should “prepare to bury your dead?”

And now we have an assortment of squawklets whining and handwringing that we’re “losing” in Afghanistan. Somehow, I don’t think so.

If recent accounts can be trusted (and I trust even the MSM a hell of a lot more than I’d trust some nutjob like Zawasneezy), the casualty ratio for Operation Medusa was something like 300 to 1 in our favour (5 Canadians KIA, to some 1500 or so toasted Taliban).

So tell me there, Aimy; if those are the “second-rate” ones, what the hell are you gutless buggers going to do when we decide to throw some real hardasses at ya? Just wondering, ya know…

Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington brings up an interesting (and disturbing) question in his latest column: Was the latest suicide attack in Afghanistan, which left four brave Canadian soldiers dead and dozens of soldiers and civilians wounded, deliberately timed to coincide with the return of our MPs for the fall session?

Are the Taliban taking lessons from the West’s history of warfare in the last half century? Are they being mindful of how the United States lost the war in Vietnam?

Yes, I know I’m going to get some heat for that comment (most of it likely from Texas) but it’s still true. The war in Vietnam was never lost on the battlefield, it was lost on the streets of America. The American public lost its stomach for the conflict and the Yanks finally cut and ran in April of 1975. In spite of winning every major engagement with the enemy (yes; including even the Tet offensive, which the peaceniks called a victory for the commies), the inexhorable, grinding lack of support for the war back home eventually knocked the pins out from under the whole damned effort.

The usual Leftist suspects who are today comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam will howl any parallel that they can find, no matter how tenuous. What they won’t mention, unless you drag it out of them kicking and screaming, is the more than 5,000,000 (yes, FIVE MILLION) Cambodians and Vietnamese who were slaughtered by the communists after the Americans pulled out. Why the hell do you think we had so many boat people seeking refuge in Canada??

How many Afghanis will the Taliban murder in repraisal if we leave?

If a recent poll is any indication, however, the Taliban are in for a rude surprise if they think mere casualties are enough to shatter our collective will. The poll by Ipsos-Reid, taken in the days prior to this past September 11th, shows that Canadian resolve is hardening as the war goes on, not weakening.

We are, historically, not a nation given to heat-of-the-moment declarations of war (with the exception of 1939) but when we do get into a fight, we damn well finish it.