It would be wrong to label Defense Minister MacKay and Foreign Minister Baird the dumb and dumber of the Harper cabinet, for the simple reason that this would be unfair to Toews and Fantino. Besides, Fantino and Toews are floundering about in junior portfolios, while Baird and MacKay have big-boy chairs.
Be that as it may, both Baird and MacKay figure in a Canadian news story today. MacKay has realized that al-Qaeda is a cancer that must be cut out. Interesting analogy. Cutting out cancer is only one method of combating the big C. There's chemo, there's radiation. Most importantly there's prevention.
If you can prevent the al-Qaeda cancer you won't have to worry about cutting it out twenty or fifty or a hundred years later.
The think tank here at Falling Downs has spent a considerable amount of time on this prevention issue. Just as getting folks to stop smoking will curtail a certain amount of cancer, changing our behaviour will prevent a certain amount of Islamic radicalism. For example, if we turned away from killing their children and stealing their resources, I'm willing to bet that a lot of the militant stuff would be nipped in the bud just like that.
Baird reiterates that Canada is willing to do its part to push back the al-Qaeda tide in Mali. Canada's part in pushing back this most grave threat to civilization, according to Baird, is lending France an airplane for a couple of weeks.
That would be the equivalent of giving the oncologist a ride to the hospital.
But we're doing our part!
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