Can’t ever call National Post columnist Don Martin a jingoist. Nor maybe even a patriot. In one of those year-end reviews that newspapers bore us with annually ad nauseam—one which is about two weeks late by my calendar, seeing as most of us are already well past all that “year end” reminiscing and most of us are ready to start the new year on a bright, fresh, happy, positive note, 
Don Martin’s exact words of abject negativity and sullen, well, morassitude on this January 1 2008 (framed in an ever-so passive-aggressive manner) in the worst newspaper column of 2008 so far (!), were, ”…Canada’s morass in Kandahar…”.
I believe in starting the new year with the right perspective; the right information and facts: so here they are: more “ass” you will scarcely find in a newspaper column this year. “Morass”. That’s not the Afghanistan mission. That’s the dingy, negative, Canadian liberal media and national resolve-weakeners like Don Martin.
Cheer up, Mr. Martin. Canada may lose the war yet. And happy new year — or “quagmire” —or whatever liberals in the media call “years” these days…
…And since I’m on Canada’s side, I’ll go ahead and post-up this
more positive, right-thinking image to start the new year:
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Copyright ©2008 by Joel Johannesen
(in case Don Martin cheers up and tries to steal it!)
EXTRA TIDBIT:
“Morass” or not, even the left-wing state-run CBC, which still often negatively, tendentiously, refers to the global war on terror as the “so-called” war on terror, reports news this morning that the commander of the Canadian forces in Afghanistan awarded medals to the troops—our troops—who, notwithstanding the negative, hopeless cause attitude of the Don Martins of the world, continue to sacrifice everything they’ve got including their very lives to ensure that the Don Martins back home can have a cheery day.
Brigadier-General Guy Laroche said:
“I would like to congratulate all of you who receive this medal today. Be proud; you deserve it.” … “It’s very important to all of us and it shows that we have responded to the call of our country.”
The CBC also reported that:
Laroche also told the soldiers that the families of their dead and injured comrades have told him they give Canada’s soldiers their full support to carry on with the mission.
“Over the last days, I’ve spoken with the vast majority of the families of our departed, I’ve also called our injured, and I can tell you that all these people, the families who have lost one of their loved ones, are giving us support and they are supporting with all their hearts,” he said.
None of the people who are actually involved—the ones doing the actual heavy lifting—the fighting—the sacrificing—call it a “morass”. Only the self-anointed media elite and other liberals back home reduce it—that noble mission—using that terminology.
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