Monday, October 20, 2008

Okay, all sarcasm aside ...

Yesterday's post about this Toronto Star article: "Critics slam Afghan rape probe" (via "pogge") speculated that Harper must think "the troops" (tm.) are stupid ignorant fools, if he doesn't think they're capable of accurately identifying an act of child rape when they see it. That's why he's taking TWO YEARS to conduct an "investigation" into this matter. (Obviously, as the Star article and the pogge post both say, two years from now is closing in on 2011 when we're scheduled to leave, making the whole exercise pointless.)

But all snideness and sarcasm aside; what the hell kind of monster is our re-elected Prime Minister? How cold and cynical do you have to be to respond to accusations (from your own supposedly beloved troops) of child rape with a bullshit public relations exercise??

And how stupid do you have to be to continue to support this imbecile and to type drivel such as this:
The timing of this article and it's [sic] graphic nature makes me suspect that it is meant to upset us rather than seek resolution. I can tell by the emotional responses of anger and shock. Afghanistan was a failing nation, the society needs to be rebuilt and reformed. Atrocities and rape may go back centuries and though abhorrent to our sensibilities, we need to try and stop all of the abuses; from chronic heroin use, domestic abuse, rape and a whole host of others through helping this country lift it's self [sic] up. We don't need to abandon this mission to a draconian regime that will occupy it and probably exact worse abuses that we can imagine. Remember the graphic executions of women in the soccer field played on our televisions before the war. Our military has performed amazing change in southern Afghanistan and we need to publish and promote more of this positive activity before condemning the mission and our military because of a very graphic disturbing article .


[That turd was dropped in the comments section of the article.] Yes, that's right. We mustn't leave because then the Afghan army that we're building and allowing to rape children with impunity will never learn that raping children is wrong, because they won't see the results of the investigation that we're conducting, which will report in 2011, ... I'm being sarcastic again and I can't find anyway to fully convey the insanity of this moron's position.

Seriously, all you Harper-Wargasm supporters, shut the fuck up, now and forever more.

1 comment:

Boris said...

I can't fault people for really believing in doing something good for the world. BUT, in the context of Afghanistan, the amount of good we might do on a micro level in some corner of our AOR matters sweet bugger all in when weighed against the meta-trends. However, some people won't ever see that because to do so means the admission of failure and deaths-in-vain. Which is something that'll happen anyway, in one form or another. There are people who would be content putt-putt along over there for 100 years rather than admit things are not going to be as they are. What sort of mental acrobatics will occur in their minds if we hit a depression and can't afford to keep people overseas is something else entirely. 2011 is harsh enough for them.

I made the point to deaf ears years ago that the Afghan army is being trained to deploy against its own people, so it socialises oppression of the population, not national defence right from the get-go. No good can come of that. It is little different from various other colonial armies raised to keep domestic insurgencies under control...from British India to US Central America.