Stupid Political Dance # 78

Support for Afghan mission dropping: poll


The poll, conducted exclusively for CanWest News Service and Global National by Ipsos Reid, showed that half of Canadians — exactly 50 per cent — said they either “strongly” or “somewhat support” the use of Canada’s troops for security and combat efforts in Afghanistan.

Almost equally planted on the other side of the debate are 45 per cent of Canadians who said they either “strongly” or “somewhat oppose” the mission in Afghanistan. The remaining five per cent said they do not have an opinion one way or the other.


Yup Yup. This is how the dance goes. Public support for the war drops. We go home.

Unfortunately , this war, they follow us home , blow up a few things in the name of imposing Shia law... we go back.

It's a stupid dance.
It's not helped by american corruption either (trying to get the oil flowing lickity quick , to america of course, right at the beginning, corruption on who wins what rebuilding contract, hospitals being built that the afghans don't know how to use even the basic plumbing so they're destroyed ... etc etc)

And it's not helped by every big business trying to get a slice of the pie by selling the government something , anything to do with it.


The truth is victory is inevitable. They can only blow up one or two buildings and damage one or two air ports in failed suicide attacks , the pool of people in the west willing to harm the west is very small, otherwise we'd be seeing a lot more than one terrorist attack every six months or so across all of the west, never mind any one particular nation.

But the truth is we have to do stupid political dance number 78.
The truth is we gotta go back home, dump all those corrupt companies and failed contracts that do nothing but move money from the government to friends of the government, and then wait for the next attack.
And then we go back. Fresh start.

Don't forget to bring anyone who ever helped us over to the west , so we at least get a reputation of not abandoning our friends. Very useful when we go back.