John Baird shocked the nation today with his blunt refusal to consider sending Canadian troops into Mali.
Canadians have hitherto been under the impression that their mission in Afghanistan has been a great success. How could they have come to believe such rubbish?
Because for ten years, every time PM Harper or Defense Minister MacKay or a top armed forces honcho visited that benighted land they came back with glowing stories of what a "great success" our mission was.
Here is a typical whopper from Harper as the combat mission was winding down.
"We have to consider the mission a great success."
Obviously if it was such a great success, it wouldn't be cited by Baird today as the reason for steering clear of Mali.
Quite aside from how many Afghan lives we wasted, Canada's ten year war in Afghanistan was a waste of Canadian lives and Canadian money.
The truth of the matter is that Canada's Afghan debacle was a debacle pretty much from the moment General Rick Hillier made his boastful threats about "killing scumbags."
But at some level I suppose it's reassuring that even while the Harperites are lying to us they know the truth.
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