Read Jonathon Kay’s excellent (as always) article today in the National Post.
Preparing for a Black Hawk Down moment
In one three-day trip to Afghanistan, Stephen Harper exhibited more leadership and moral clarity than the Liberals did in 13 years.
The Prime Minister went to Afghanistan because he understands what’s at stake: If the country falls back into Taliban hands, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar will have proven to the world—including everyone in Iraq—that jihadis can rout a modern Western army and transform a nascent democracy into a medieval theocracy.
The PM’s main problem is that the Taliban are the enemies of not just ordinary Afghans, but of America as well. And so Canada’s Left, reflexively sympathetic to anyone warring against George W. Bush, is already singing the chorus of cut-and-run.
But even the Left is divided on Afghanistan—because our mission there has a strong humanitarian component. Across a range of human-development indicators, Afghanistan resembles a sub-Saharan nation. Linda McQuaig and Rick Salutin may believe we should let ordinary Afghans suffer because helping them would indirectly help Bush. But few Canadians are inclined to agree.
[…] Paul Martin and Jean Chretien spoke often about Canadian values, and congratulated themselves at great length about our country’s Beatles-era peacekeeping tradition. But they did little to fight terrorism and rogue power in the modern world. Even when the Liberals eventually did the right thing in Afghanistan, they kept mum on the subject—as if it were something to be embarrassed about.
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