CBC made a funny! They didn’t mean to, but they did!
PM dismisses report criticizing Afghanistan mission
Last Updated Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:04:21 EDT
CBC NewsPrime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed a report Wednesday from a French think-tank….
And despite the words about fighting wars “from a French think-tank”, they went on—in a serious kind of way! And on and on. Yes, they continued with the story—in fact it’s currently the NUMBER ONE STORY on the state-run media’s web site.
They go on and on and on about how the Euroliberal French think-tank believes Canada, and the U.K. and of course America are all wrong on the war in Afghanistan. The mission is… wait for it…. bad bad bad! Euroliberals don’t agree with America! Film at eleven! And twelve, and one through eleven tomorrow, three times per hour, and watch for a special “Passionate Eye” investigation this summer.
The CBC forgot to report this, however, as reported in the Daily Times in Pakistan: The Afghan government doesn’t want Canadians to leave. They want the French think-tank SENLIS to leave! You can’t make this kind of humor up, folks.
KABUL: The upper house of Afghan parliament wants a London-based group pushing for the legalisation of Afghanistan’s huge opium crop to leave the country, the counternarcotics ministry said Saturday.
A meeting of the upper house last week decided the Senlis Council “should stop their activities in Afghanistan and leave this country,” the ministry said in a statement. The international think-tank has been pushing for Afghanistan to legalise its opium crop, which supplies up to 90 percent of the heroin used in Europe, saying crop eradication will never work. The group says opium production should be licenced and the crop used to make legal painkillers for developing countries, which it says have a growing demand for these drugs.
The upper house said the activities of the Senlis Council were against a ruling by religious leaders against drugs, as well as the constitution, which also prohibits their production and use.
The government and the United Nations, a key partner in Afghanistan’s efforts to cut its opium production, have long rejected the council’s ideas as impractical. In “the current circumstances, there is no control mechanism and strong security in many areas of Afghanistan,” the ministry’s statement said. “If allowed, licencing poppy cultivation would have helped and supported the enemies of this country, particularly the drug traffickers.”
Like liberals everywhere, rather than eradicate drugs, the anti-American French think-tank (and war experts!) want to legalize them.
Over at the CTV liberalvision web site, they’re calling it a “British think-tank” (they do have an office in London). I suppose the idea that it’s a British think-tank sounds less funny than it being called a French think-tank, and they’re right about that.
It starts out this way:
Futile American policies aimed at eradicating the opium poppy crop in southern Afghanistan are costing the lives of both locals and Canadian soldiers, charged the London-based Senlis Council in a report released Wednesday.
They also failed to let us in on the fact that the Afghan government wants SENLIS to leave.
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