Terry Glavin, for the National Post - The new Kabul .
Among Kabul's human rights activists, student leaders and women's rights groups, the big fear isn't the spectre of Taliban militias rolling back into Kabul. The much greater threat comes from places like Washington, Tehran and Islamabad. It's the clamour for a backroom deal with the Taliban (with President Hamid Karzai's signature on it for the sake of appearances). The stink of a looming betrayal is everywhere, and Kabulis, betrayed so many times before, can smell it a mile away.
Fatana Gilani: "There are 40 countries in Afghanistan now. It is very difficult to know which country is our friend."
When your daily choices are about survival as an Afghani, or ISAF forces in the field, the last thing they are worrying about is the distressing choices; of what a journalist does or does not write in their columns, for the benefit of the home front, who are comfortably ensconced in their easy chairs, reading the latest tabloid type headline.
The false self-pity and self-approbation of the MSM can only induce nausea. Get out of your skins and over yourselves.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
That comment at The torch is what my Australian friends would call "a beaut".
Gets to, and makes it's point, pretty damn quick....
Posted by: eastern paul at November 15, 2008 12:13 AM cbc can only run their agenda instead of the news (or using well established factual reports from credible journalists) so send in a malleable greenie female into a dangerous situation and voila!
wha wha wha
Oh dear! What happened?
Obviously stupidity happened.
No surprise really.
cbc interferes in military operations to become a 'victim' and now stroking themselves on air on our billion dollar tab, to 'talk about how ethical they were being[-spit].
Endanger lives unnecessarily then praise themselves, the lowest of the low.
I am glad she's fine, but still churns my stomach that cbc will endangering any and many lives just to make the news fit what they want to project.
Their arrogance is astounding.
The mention of "incorrigible warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar" was interesting, since Hekmatyar--a vicious thug well-known for acid throwing--was one of Ronald Reagan's favorites back when the US administration thought it was a good idea to back, fund, train and arm violent extremists in Afghanistan, with consequences still playing out today, including in the person and career of Hekmatyar.
Hekmatyar was incorrigible back in the 1980s, too, of course, but his violent extremism happened to align with official US foreign policy interests at the time, so he received the usual patronage.
A recurrent theme in great-power foreign policy towards smaller states, still being played out today: make short-sighted decisions based on a narrowly-defined national interest, and let someone else--the local people, future administrations, the citizenry at home--pay the price.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar--incorrigible warlord, or living monument to Ronald Reagan's visionary leadership?
Posted by: Stephen at November 15, 2008 12:23 PMAs the Russians and the British before them learned, we will keep winning right up to when we leave. Then it will all revert to where it was before.
Posted by: peterj at November 16, 2008 12:08 AM