126, 127 - For what?
Agent 1 received from a friend a FWD called "Sack Lunches". Some of you may have seen it. It originated in the USA and tells the story of someone travelling on a plane who bought some "sack lunches" (as an American would say) for some soldiers who were on the same flight? Why? Because "these soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals."
The writer goes on to say "A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'Canada' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"
Well, sorry...but Sapper Matthieu Allard and Cpl. Christian Bobbitt (pictured above) did not die for Canada.
Allard and Bobbitt, RIP, were more than numbers. They had faces. They had names. They had families who now mourn them, as all Canadians should. But what happens or doesn't happen in Afghanistan will make no difference to their families or the future of Canada or Canadians.
Perhaps our brave troops are fighting -- or think they're fighting -- for democracy and world peace. That's what the Canadian government tells them. Do you think, dear reader, that the deaths of 127 Canadians have made any difference? Do you think Afghanistan is going to taste the blessings of freedom and democracy any time soon? They've never had those things and there's not much evidence that they even want them!
Walt says...leave the Afghans to whatever kind of life they choose for themselves, even if that includes raising opium poppies, oppressing their women and killing each other. Afghanistan is their country. Leave it to them. And bring our troops home!
See "More bloodshed, another life extinguished...for what?" (17/7/09)
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