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For those that know me personally I'm a strong nationalist... I'm proud of my country and it's accomplishments, even if I was born before many of them took place....

However, when I came home from work today I sat down and read the paper... I was shocked... horrified... and almost suicidal after reading an article... It was so depressing... a "Reporter".... perhaps "Fairy Tale Author" would be a better term since she put The Brothers Grimm and Mother Goose to shame ... had the gall to not report but give commentary... Now commentary is generally good... The commentators are humourous or serious and to the point... but not this "Fairy Tale Author".... I'm guessing it was about an hour before her deadline and she still had nothing so she chose to rant (much like I'm doing now). The difference was that she went to Google and typed in a search along the lines of "longest words in the english language"... she has some great flowerly statements in there... it could be poetry if she wasn't trying so hard to make it a newspaper article...

To sum the article up -- "So many words, so little said"

Here are a few examples for those of you not brave enough to visit the actual article:

There is nothing quixotic — tipping at windmills dreamy — about the security and stabilization mission to Afghanistan.

They don't fight like them, they aren't drawn from a broad arc of ethnic groups and tribal alliances like them, and they're not nationally, passionately, esteemed as valiant warriors like them.

Or further, even more ignobly, that this struggle is not in our interest — not worth the blood of Canadian men and women — and that we should disengage forthwith, concentrate our resources, in treasure and troops, elsewhere. (But elsewhere, be it Darfur or Haiti — or whatever bright object of humanitarian need might captivate the likes of Jack Layton — would lose its thrall, you can bet on it, as soon as Canadian troops started dying there, too.)

But we're making a grandiose and mythical enemy out of the Taliban, as if this faction is an opponent that can't be dislodged or even contained, prevented from sloshing over into all the other provinces where there has been no robust threat to the rehabilitation of Afghanistan.

This is dangerous defeatism and a self-fulfilling prophecy for the constituency that is isolationist at heart or reflexively opposed to any military intervention anywhere. They cloak their objections in the purported futility of Afghanistan — a morass in the making,

We are flirting with failure, not because that fate is foretold but because, five years (Long live the F)

Peace,
HT

PS: This blog will remain as IT Related as I can make it.... but this just had to be voiced.... and between this site and SpamMailBag, I've broken 10,000 visitors this month.... that seemed like a nice number of people to try and reach with this message... And thank you to my visitors.