CBC brings you some fake news about fake news

The headline caught my eye; No, Trudeau did not give $465M to Afghanistan, only to have it 'disappear.'

The story doesn't quite live up to the headline. Yes, apparently Trudeau did promise $465 million in aid to Afghanistan back in 2016. Nobody seems to know whether or not any of that amount was actually delivered, and writer Kaleigh Rogers doesn't tell us. That would have required actual research, rather than just recycling a press release from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.

In any event, if whatever amount was delivered, no one knows where it went. Does that mean it "disappeared?"

No!

Just because you don't know the whereabouts of something doesn't mean it disappeared, according to Kaleigh.

Here's an alternative explanation; maybe it wasn't $465 million that disappeared, quite possibly it was only Justin's promise that disappeared, as so many of them have.

So we have something of a non-story here.

Some obscure political party you've never heard of gets a boatload of free publicity, thanks to the CBC. So do the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Evan Balgord, and CrowdTangle.

But thanks anyway, Kaleigh, for refreshing our memories of that unmitigated disaster that was Canada's Afghan adventure.

$465M is a drop in the bucket when you look at the big picture. Actual costs, including our war efforts and our "aid," are closer to $25 billion, and it's only the continuing US occupation that's keeping the Taliban from retaking the entire country. That doesn't include the long-term-care costs for the thousands of Canadian veterans who came back with PTSD.

Let's not forget that it was that lovable little guy from Shawinigan who got us into that mess. Stephen "we're not the type to cut and run" Harper enthusiastically picked up the baton. There's plenty of bipartisan shame to go around.

Perhaps the lesson to be taken is that we'd be better off to stay home and take care of Canada. It's not that we couldn't put those $25 billions to good use here.


Look around you.