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  1. Essential reading from ISW:
    Carl Forsberg, The Taliban’s Campaign for Kandahar
    The Quetta Shura Taliban has made Kandahar province and its capital, Kandahar City, primary objectives of their campaign in southern Afghanistan. Kandahar is also the birthplace of the movement, and the historical powerbase of the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Despite the importance of Kandahar, NATO’s International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) has until very recently failed to prioritize the province and to grasp the Taliban’s campaign plan to take Kandahar City. General McChrystal rightly called attention to Kandahar City in his August 30, 2009 Commander’s Initial Assessement, which was subsequently published by the Washington Post…
    In 2007 and early 2008, the Canadian battle group focused on fighting the Taliban for control of Zhari and Panjwai. The attempts to do so ultimately developed into a costly stalemate, leading the Canadians to gradually withdraw from the area. The Canadian experience in Zhari and Panjwai demonstrated that a battalion-sized force was insufficient to decisively clear or destroy enemy networks in these districts. It also revealed the dangers of deploying insufficiently trained and unprofessional ANP units…

  3. Liberal Iffy’s IST Ouster.
    Liberal Iffy ousts the HST and replaces it with the IST.
    “Just last summer, during a tour of B.C., Ignatieff criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper for pushing provinces in the midst of a recession to adopt what he derisively referred to as the “Harper sales tax.””
    More Iffy: “After a week of confusion, Ignatieff grudgingly acknowledged that he would, in fact, honour that agreement should he become prime minister.”
    More more Iffy:
    ““We’re practising a federalism of respect. Mr. Harper . . . practised a federalism of disrespect and division and I don’t think that’s any way to run a federation.””
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/12/01/11993751-cp.html

  4. I’m thinking, isn’t December 1st close to the anniversary of the birth of the Coalition of Losers? I think it may be time for a retrospective, a reminder of all the wonderful outrage we shared a year ago……

  6. y’all thought that topping B. Hussien as Nobel Peace Prize winner would be hard to beat?
    “An on-line petition has byeen started to propose the historic Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 in recognition of the social, cultural, human rights…” bla bla bla
    http://www.periodico26.cu/english/news_cuba/november2009/fidel-nobel113009.html
    http://babalublog.com/2009/12/fidel-castro-for-2010-nobel-peace-prize-petition/

  7. Michele and Tareq Salahi probing WH security gets reported in MSM as ‘gatecrashers’. How cute!

  9. I can’t help but wonder what bureaucracy will grant exemptions for people to fly – and what is worthy for exemption in our not-too-distant future…(love that headline huh? I think if translated, it means ‘you are doing the right thing Canada)
    Climate writer blasts Canada as a ‘corrupt petro-state’
    Cathal Kelly Staff Reporter
    Published On Tue Dec 01 2009
    British journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot took aim at Canada’s climate policies today, calling this country a “corrupt petro-state” whose government behaves with “the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party.”
    On the eve of his appearance, he fired a fusillade at the Harper government from his journalistic perch. He writes that he is so appalled by Canada’s climate policy that he has broken a self-imposed ban on flying in order to come to Toronto (jumbo jets are far and away the worst transportation emitters of climate-destroying carbon)….”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/732958–climate-writer-blasts-canada-as-a-corrupt-petro-state

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