Lest You Wonder...

...whether or not we should stay the course in Afghanistan.

Sometimes I should just read the whole thing before lifting and pasting juicy passages from it. A case in point is the passage from Michael Ledeen's article I published as an update in the entry just below this one. Ledeen's article in and of itself is so profound it deserves top billing on its own and I would strongly urge you to read it in its entirety. For one thing, there is this little nugget (emphasis mine):

"So we have a regime of zombies in Tehran, but they can still do a lot of damage, to Iranians and to us. Early last week Khamenei summoned Afghan terrorist chieftain Gulbadin Hekhmatiar to Tehran, and told him to step up attacks against American and other Allied forces. Other Iranian-supported terrorist groups have received similar instructions."

So here we have one of the most despicable regimes on the face of the earth rallying their terrorist allies to kill more Canadians in Afghanistan so as to encourage us to pull out, just as many in Canada are now doing. I ask you, if we do pull out, or if Obama fails to heed Gen. Stanley McChrystal's advise in one way or another, history will show that we betrayed not just the Afghans, but the Iranian people, too, simply by turning tail and running when the going got tough. Our soldiers can do better than that. Would that their masters, the Canadian people recognize what is at stake and act accordingly.

If you want to hear a impassioned defense of the case for staying the course, listen to the barn-burner statement made by Terry Glavin at the Q & A session following Bruce Bawer's speech in Ottawa, beginning at about 47:14 with a knockout punch delivered at 51:00 where he starts with the words "There will be a reckoning...".

In the meantime, yeah Canada!!!!

Canada to walk out on Ahmadinejad's speech

The Harper government's record on dealing with international pariahs is, despite all the other unfinished and not even started business they should be addressing, enough to guarantee my vote the next time around. At least that's where things stands today.