The French announcement of 1,000 troops was made on the eve of a two-day alliance summit and, as a result, the United States confirmed it would deploy additional resources to the south, including Kandahar province, where 2,500 Canadian troops are located. national post
Not quite in the right place but the French look like coming through.
PMSH (PBUH) had this to say:
“The fact of the matter is that we all under-committed, we all underestimated the task and we’ve been compensating ever since.” national post
Well yes Steve: these folks beat the living hell out of the Russians There was one survivor of the British capture of Kabul. Hello Steve, I want Canada to win. I want Nato to win. But it is long past the point where we’ve “under estimated a damn thing”. For Heavens sake you are briefed. Unless the Armed Forces are lying to you, which is unlikely, you’ve known for a while that the ‘Stan is not a cakewalk.
Canada has the ability to fight well and we have; the question is whether the creeps in the CPC will actually realize and recoginize the achievements of our troops.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2008 with 3 comments.
Read more articles on Uncategorized.
Susan Shirk, of the University of California at San Diego, recently published a very insightful book that calls China a “fragile superpower.” “When I discuss it in America,” she told me, “people always ask, ‘What do you mean, fragile?’” When she discusses it here in China, “they always ask, ‘What do you mean, superpower?’” james fallows, the atlantic
Littering my desk are the products of China. USB ports and Canon cameras. China’s rise in the world is made on products which, as Fallows has pointed out before, involve neither design nor marketing. China can never be dismissed; but a nation in which 90% of its major cities are close to “out of water” is not a threat regardless of the missiles at its command. The real Chinese Revolution is just beginning.
I suspect we will be shocked and surprised as China shrugs off a century of corruption and economic idiocy. And we’ll adapt.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on China and International and economics.
I’ll keep voting Left because I can’t imagine voting Tory, and the Lib Dems are a wasted vote. But I know that, in the end, I am voting for a double-talking mealy-mouthed enemy of everything they purport to be promoting— equality, opportunity, fairness. They are the living embodiment of Lao Tse’s greatest truth and the source of the white working classes tragedy— that “goody goodies are the enemies of virtue.” the ambler
Indeed. Go read the whole thing. KMG needs to post more.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Canadian Politics and blogging and culture.
“Notably, the hate blogs - Brock, Currie, Shaidle, McMillan et al. - have all suspended their anti-aboriginal animus long enough to rally to Ahenakew’s defence, and his “right” to call Jews a “disease.” warren kinsella
If I was the sort of person who sued bloggers I’d sue over this bit of the liar’s Kinsella’s spew. Frankly I think, and I swear I have written but a site search is not showing it, that David Ahenakew is a vile piece of shit who the Order of Canada and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations should shun in the true Amish sense of the term.
But the liar Kinsella never let the facts get in the way of a good old fashioned smear….
Update: Ah, here we are…it was on my old blog. To quote the “hater” Jay Currie,
This is a good example of an appropriate use of anti-hate speech laws. Ahenakew was over the top. While I would hope that the judge in the case will accept his public mortification as ample punishment. The point of the anti-hate speech laws should be to call people to order not to put them in jail. 6/11/2003
Gee, here’s an idea, why not strip Ahenakew of his Order of Canada on the basis that he is a revolting anti-Semite and a disgrace to the Order….4/6/2005
While I am not a fan of hate crimes legislation, I do think that removing an honour is perfectly appropriate when a person behaves dispicably 7/8/2005
So Warren, I don’t actually want to live in the Beaches…all that snow, all those Liberals (and apparently neo-Nazis in the basements ready to pounce on liars) so I will limit myself to the traditional: Fuck You.
I feel better already.
Update: “Can’t find the Currie one, but I did yesterday.” the liar Kinsella I am always torn between thinking Kinsella is delusional and thinking he is malicious. Either way, it is awfully tempting to let a judge decide.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2008 with 8 comments.
Read more articles on Canadian Politics and blogging and culture.