On 25 May, 21:05, P=E7teris Cedri=F2=F0 (Peteris Cedrins)
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> wrote:
> Terry Glavin at the National Post -- an excerpt:
>
> "This is not just 'George Bush's war.' This is a liberation struggle.
> It's a war of resistance against clerical fascism, against the most
> unspeakably brutal kind of misogyny, against tyranny, slavery,
> illiteracy and oppression. Over the past six years, poll after poll
> has provided unequivocal, empirical evidence that the Afghan people
> want us there to help them win this fight. And the people are winning.
He is repeating the same message that Soviets delivered during their
"struggle for liberation" of Afghanistan -)) He must have watched
these news from Moscow back then -))
>
> "In 2004, only one in 10 Afghans had access to medical services. Now
> it's eight in 10. Three out of every four children under the age of
> five have been immunized against childhood diseases. There are
> millions of girls attending school now.
Yes, everyone knew that Soviet soldiers were building hospitals and
schools, the figures were presented too....
> More than 100,000 women have
> begun their own small businesses with micro-loans administered by the
> World Bank -- that sinister institution we progressives are supposed
> to despise.
>
> "Afghanistan is now an embryonic democracy, and one of every four
> Afghan MPs is a woman. Just a few years ago, Afghan women weren't
> allowed out of doors unless they were accompanied by a man. Under the
> Taliban, you weren't allowed to watch television, but now there are
> seven national television stations, and all sorts of little
> newspapers, and 10 universities.
and the "women's rights" of course.
>
> "None of this would have happened if the so-called 'anti-war' argument
> had prevailed.
Urah!!!
> If the ISAF armies just packed up and left, it would be
> back to the Dark Ages again.
British propaganda sources are constantly telling us that the "ages"
are still very dark. The involvement of young Prince didn't help to
sell the idea very much.
>
> "Still, the Afghan people want more, and faster. Last month, to
> protest the snail's pace of their government's efforts to bring armed
> militants to heel, workers in the Herat region launched a five-day
> general strike that came close to shutting down the entire province.
> What did Canada's left contribute to that effort? Nothing.
Well, I guess Terry Glavin should purchase a Kalashnikov (don=FFt know
if guns are legal in Canada), one way ticket and contribute instead of
writing slogans. But I'm sure he prefers to be in safe environment.
>
> "Last November, 10-year-old Alaina Podmorow got together with 18 of
> her fellow Grade 5 pupils in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, and
> they raised enough money to pay the salaries of five Afghan
> schoolteachers for a whole year. How is it that in doing this simple
> thing, Alaina and her young comrades,
Young comrades! Komsomol?
> in the space of a few weeks,
> made a greater contribution to the liberation of the Afghan people
> than the combined efforts of the NDP, the Canadian Labour Congress and
> the Canadian Federation of Students, over the past seven years?
>
> "It's a long story. It's at least partly because cultural relativism
> has eaten away at the principle of universal rights -- which was once
> the bedrock of left-wing politics --and a crude and paranoid anti-
> Americanism
And of course "crude and paranoid anti-Sovietism"... I hope this guy's
views are not too popular in Canada.
> has come to serve as a substitute for rational,
> progressive analysis. By Sept. 11, 2001, the politics of solidarity
> had been eclipsed by the politics of the counterculture, and so the
> main ranks of the left settled into a comfortable and familiar
> Sixties' narrative: It's the Third World vs. American empire."
>
> http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=3D533347
>
> I got there through "But, I am a Liberal!" --
>
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