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There are a number of very good reasons to do the right thing in Afghanistan.

And an excellent summary was recently posted by Dave at the Galloping Beaver.

But that doesn't mean we, the Canuckistani people, should keep silent when we do the wrong thing. For example, as reported by Paul Koring last week:

"But neither the new Conservative government in Ottawa nor its previous Liberal governments seem troubled by the sprawling detainee camps at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Not only has there been no Canadian demand for it to close, but Canada's special-forces units in Afghanistan continue to hand terrorism suspects over to U.S. forces who ship at least some of them to Guantanamo."


And, now there's this from Jeff Sallot today:

OTTAWA -- Canada voted against a controversial resolution on Palestinian rights at the United Nations yesterday, an early sign that the new Harper government is aligning its Middle East policy more closely with the views of Israel and the United States.

The previous Liberal government had abstained on the identical resolution last year. But on instructions from Ottawa, the Canadian delegation at the UN joined the United States to vote against a non-binding motion calling on Israel to allow all Palestinian refugee women and children to return to their homes.

The South-African-sponsored resolution was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council by a vote of 41-2 with only Canada and the United States voting against it.

This was the first Middle East resolution to come before a UN body since Stephen Harper's Conservative government was sworn in last month.

Passivity is one thing, but active support for doomed policies of repression that encourage extremism is quite another.

Which, of course, is a clear example of why really knowing what you're voting for does count, regardless the minority thing.

Because, now, when even Republicans down south are jumping off the Strangelove-inspired PNACKian Doomwagon, Canada is being seen as suddenly clamouring to get on board.

And for what?

So that we can be honoured with the booby prize of giving the Jebbinator all of our oil in 2010?

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Original Link Source on Dave's Afghan piece from Cathie.
Update: Longtime reader and Quebec correspondent eteba wonders if Lester Pearson is spinning in his grave. We figure that if he is it's probably happening at approximately 1956 rpm.

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