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"Left-wing nutjobs are just as ignorant as right-wing neo-cons, or they wouldn't be left-wing nutjobs."
The Globe & Mail may be liberal, even very liberal, but it's hardly the repository of "left-wing nutjobs". Last I checked, btw, voting constituencies are comprised of the full spectrum.
My not-very-scientific straw poll showed 44 folks that I'd fairly guess wouldn't object and even likely endorse Canada's immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as a future disassociation with any military activity involving America. None that I read would feel very differently from each other.
Like it or not, they're voters.
I've often contended that European and Canadian gov'ts. sold their constituencies a bill of goods about Afghanistan. It was patently clear in the parliamentary debates held in England, Holland, and Canada during the spring of 2006. The mission was understated- by far- and billed as a Euro-rescue of good sense and civic responsibility from America's heavy hand.
The ground reality was starkly different. Anybody reading Christine Lamb of the London Times during the spring, 2006 knew what Kandahar and Helmand were, even then, really all about.
See no, speak no, hear no evil. In spades and it's still that way. I just read the comments of 44 people who haven't a clue but don't feel constrained by ignorance from expressing their opinion.
Makes me sad.
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