Canada never backs down...

A couple of days after the greatest American President in history delivered his tour-de-farce at the UNGA, it was the turn of Canada's dimwitted FM to take the podium. There followed a predictable litany of platitudes extolling Canada's exceptional virtue. We stand with our allies. We don't retreat from our duty. We'll stand with Ukraine as long as it takes... and so on. According to her, over the past three and a half years since Russia's illegal and totally unprovoked full-scale invasion, we've already stood with Ukraine to the tune of $22 billions. Canadians need to ponder that. Given all the things we're told we can't afford, like proper staffing for schools and hospitals, like affordable housing, like pensions our elders can live on, like supports for Canadians with disabilities, like universal daycare,like so many other social supports citizens in a supposedly advanced nation should be able to rely on, does it make sense to shovel $500 millions to Ukraine every month? And to promise to continue doing so "for as long as it takes?" No! And spare me the nonsense about Putin coming for the rest of the free world when Ukraine collapses. At the rate he's going, I figure another five years to victory over Kyiv, then ten years to fight his way through Poland, then at least another ten years each for the core NATO nations of France and Germany, plus a few years rolling up the minor players like the Baltics and the Netherlands. Hell, it's gonna be the turn of the next century before we have to worry about fighting the Russians on the beaches of Nova Scotia! In the meantime, the duty of our government is to the Canadian people, not people on the other side of the world.

Trump makes greatest deal in entire history of human civilization!

At least that's what he told us. Memo to Nobel Prize Committee; could you please, PLEASE give Mr Trump his damned Nobel Peace Prize already! Maybe he'll stop grandstanding... As if! Frankly, I don't think the greatest deal in the history of civilization has a prayer. In the first place, it'll never get by the ultra-nationalists in Israel. Second, I can't see where Hamas, who weren't consulted on this deal, would agree to abject surrender. Finally, dragging in the corpse of the British Empire, who engineered most of the never-ending "Middle East Crisis" to begin with, in the person of uber douche-bag Tony Blair, is an insult for the ages. No self-respecting Mohammedan can countenance such insolence. So I figure it's game on! Bring on the genocide! Finish the job, Bibi! Use Uncle Sam's no-limit credit card to deliver the final solution to the Palestinian problem. The history books await!

The fallacious framing of the Canada Post strike

Canada's fourth estate, who claim to speak truth to power, instead now content themselves with speaking power's truths to their consumers. That's how we got to a place where a significant slice of the populace finds it reasonable to buy the government's line that "we can't keep subsidizing Canada Post indefinitely." Why not? What other essential services do we threaten to shut down if they fail to produce a profit? Are schools turning a profit? Are hospitals? Is anyone threatening to shut down schools and hospitals? There's a stretch of sideroad around the corner that washes out in every rainstorm. It costs the county thousands of dollars trucking in gravel and grading the road, which has a total of six houses on it. Where's the profit in that? We have a Canadian tradition of subsidizing essential services. It's something that sets us apart from our neighbours. In America, they do expect their hospitals to make a profit! It's not the fault of postal workers that the Post Office has missed every opportunity to make itself relevant.

Former Fox News guy gets on CBC after he defects to pinko MSNBC

In case you haven't figured it out, it's Chris Hayes I'm talking about. After all, no Fox News person would make it onto the woke airwaves of CBC without such a defection. He's plugging a book he just published, "The Siren's Call," so I guess his stop at the CBC was part of a book promo tour. Chris has been around the halls of power long enough that he knows how shit works. He's been watching Trump long enough to know how Trump works. He made an interesting observation about Trump. As Chris tells it, going back to Trump's real estate days and right up to his White House tenure, when people go into negotiations with Mafia Don, they assume they're going to get the better of the glorified condo hustler sitting across from them. It's only later they realize they've been seriously pantsed. That's an astute observation. Too bad Hayes doesn't lay the blame for the serial stupidity of everybody who could have stopped Trump where it belongs; on an education system that valorizes herd thinking over critical thinking. If the herd-think declares Trump a moron who can be easily swayed, there's general agreement. It's only later that our savants, utterly out-played, question how Trump got away with this or that...

Haiti in the headlines

Frankly, I'm shocked we don't see headlines about Haiti more often. After all, Haiti is practically in our back yard. It's barely a four hour flight out of Montreal or Toronto. Kyiv and Tel Aviv are at least ten hours away, yet you hear ten times as much from those compared to Haiti. I figure that's mainly because Ukraine and Israel both have powerful lobbies in Canada, powerful enough to get attention, and results, in Ottawa. Haiti has nothing comparable. Sure, they've got Michaelle Jean, the first Black Governor General of Canada, but she disgraced herself in the eyes of official Ottawa, by starting a foundation to lobby for reparations for Blacks in Canada. In official Ottawa they just roll their eyes and mutter, "after everything we've done for her." But back to Haiti, which has actually warranted a few news stories lately. Back in August, there were stories on multiple semi-reputable news sites, including CBC, about Erik Prince signing a contract with whoever passes for government down there, to bring in one of his private "contractor" armies to take on the gangs. I'd be delighted to provide a link, but unfortunately my ability to do links on this platform disappeared around the time the warning showed up that I'm violating community standards, so forget links - I'm glad to be able to publish at all. In case the name doesn't ring a bell, Prince is the billionaire Trump pal who got rich by subcontracting US military jobs, because as we all know, the private sector can do everything more efficiently. And Blackwater, his mercenary outfit, was so efficient at killing Iraqis that they've had to change their name every few years just to stay ahead of the multiple lawsuits they're facing. That was in mid-August. Hardly a month later, Haiti hits the headlines again! Erik's company, currently known as "Vectus Global," looks like it's keeping up the Blackwater tradition of mowing down civilians in the interest of peace, security, human rights, and, last but certainly not least, profits! Eight children dead and another six wounded in a drone attack, according to CBC. Ironically, on the same day, the Global Affairs Canada website announced a $60 million contribution to the security of Haiti. Hmm... I wonder how much of that will find its way into Erik's pockets?

Now that Israel's genocide has decimated Gaza and West Bank, Western nations ready to recognize Palestine!

You had a roll-call of cowards virtue-signalling their imaginary human rights bona fides at the UN today. Australia, Canada, France, Portugal, and UK all declared their commitment to the long-dead-and-buried two-state solution. What an odious pile of horseshit! What a bunch of two-faced liars! Do you imagine any of these champions of their vaunted "two-state-solution" will offer up the boots on the ground to expell the 800,000 settlers squatting on the 22% of Palestine designated for the Palestinians? Of course not! What we're seeing with this phoney gambit is a collection of Israel allies, who haven't lifted a finger to stop the genocide, hoping to appease their increasingly discomfitted populations. Despicable! I hate to admit it, but the vile war criminal Netanyahu is running rings around the lot of them. He is winning. He is absolutely right; there will never be a Palestinian state. And there is absolutely nothing the self-annointed "Nations of Virtue" can or will do about it.

History will remember Netanyahu as the man who destroyed Israel

The evidence is everywhere, at least for those who have eyes to see. That does not seem to include the political elites of the "Nations of Virtue," the self-annointed arbiters of global justice and injustice. Just yesterday the Americans, yet again, vetoed another Gaza ceasefire proposal at the UNSC. Just because Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians to death and making Gaza uninhabitable by destroying all civilian infastructure, doesn't make it a "genocide." Canada, and the other cowardly hypocrites "recognizing" Palestine at this late date, are fully complicit in the campaign to erase the Palestinins. Our lame duck Foreign minister Anita Anand is concerned for the viability of the long-dead "two-state solution." For fifty years our standard response to more illegal settlements in the West Bank has been empty rhetoric about how such activity "isn't helpful" for the imaginary two-state solution, which in my estimation was murdered with Yitzhak Rabin. Anybody still dreaming of two states, with 800,000 settlers now squatting on Palestinian land, is being deliberately obtuse. Our newly-minted ambassador to the UN, the dimbulb David Lametti, has declared he needs all the evidence to come in before admitting Israel is committing genocide. That's akin to waiting for all the evidence to come in before recognizing the holocaust of European Jews in the 1940s. While we're blithely waiting for the evidence to come in, the murderers keep up their grizzly mission of eliminating the untermenschen. The messianic madness that has engulfed Israel is destroying the country. "Standing with Israel" in its current one-man-rule dispensation is standing by as what used to be a great country makes itself an international pariah. The educated elite can and will prosper elsewhere. What's left are the "hilltop youth" hooligans and their fanatical supporters. They cannot sustain a society fit for the 21st century. They are now the backbone of Netanyahu's support. The future is bleak indeed.

Bibi Netanyahu really, really, for DOUBLE REALLY & DOUBLE SURE wants you to know he had nothing, nothing, NOTHING to do with Charlie Kirk's assassination

The blood was still warm on the ground when The Greatest Leader Since Moses took to social media to declare Charlie Kirk the greatest friend Israel ever had. Oh, and even though at that point no-one had mentioned such a possibility, he wanted us to know Israel had nothing to do with it. Since then he's had multiple appearances on American news shows expressing Israel's profound and abiding love for Charlie. Today he released a fresh Youtube video that begins, hilariously, with a quote from Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebels. Then he procceeds to plough yet again the well-tilled terrain of Charlie's love affair with Israel, and offers the hint that the radical leftists, in cahoots with radical Islamists, who killed Charlie, may have been funded by Qatar! Methinks he's protesting way too much.

Carney & Co prep Canadians for a whole lotta belt-tightening before the Austerity Enema hits on Nov 4

Be afraid! Be very afraid! All belts clear across the land are gonna have to be tightened, and then tightenedd some more, as the Free World faces its darkest hour since... hmm... maybe since the end of the WWII. Everything from chastity belts to drive belts to fan belts gotta get cinched up a coupla notches. You know why! The future of the democratic world depends on all the freedom-loving allies standing shoulder to shoulder to defeat Putin, just as we stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat Hitler. Ukraine shoulders the burden of ensuring the survival of the made-in-USA "rules based order," which is under attack by authoritarian countries who hate freedom and human rights. Therefore we MUST MUST MUST do our share! The former PM of Newfoundland (and Labrador), Andrew Furey, shared all this in a guest Globe & Mail op-ed today. Mr Furey is clear on one thing. We must be prepared to make sacrifices. He even uses the expression "human sacrifices." Because the ultimate contest between good and evil is playing out in Ukraine. And if we Canadians want peace and prosperity we need to stop pussyfooting around and double our military budget this year and double it again next year! Zelly says he's spending over a third of his GDP on this war. Obviously, the least we can do is spend a third of ours, instead of the niggardly 5% we've thus far comitted to. And if we really cared about freedom and democracy, we'd put boots on the ground, just like we did when we took on Hitler! Mr Carney seems every inch as committed to freedom and democracy as is Mr Zelensky. Are YOU committed? November 4 is coming up soon. What are you prepared to sacrifice to ensure that our Western values prevail? After all, health care, education, and housing don't mean diddly if Russia, China, and Iran are allowed to get away with threatening our superior way of life!

Which way is Mrs. Kirk gonna jump?

That was quite a powerful call-to-arms Mrs Kirk delivered in her eulogy to her late husband, Charlie Kirk. She vowed retribution against those who took away her husband. But who was she talking about? The prevailing take in mainstream US media is that Charlie was dispatched by some vague conspiracy amongst extremist right-wingers, radical leftists, and/or radical Islamists. After all, no less an authority on terrorism and political assassinations than Bibi Netanyahu has opined that it was all a part of a dastardly conspiracy to undermine "Judeo-Christian values." You know; the Judeo-Christian values that permit the mass murder of the children of Gaza by Israel while their Christian enablers in DC ensure the bombs and bullets and UN vetoes keep coming. Meanwhile, an alternative narrative is being sketched out in the alternative media, and a quite convincing one. To wit; Charlie was a great friend of Israel long enough to accept many millions in donations while being a reliable spokesperson for the genocidal state, but in recent months he'd been wavering in his Israel-uber-alles weltanschauuing. Coincidentally, they're bending over backwards to rush out lauditory salutes to Charlie in Israel. Check out this quote from the Jewish Telegraph Agency today; "Israelis are paying widespread tribute to Charlie Kirk, renaming streets and painting murals in honor of the American conservative activist assassinated this week in Utah." Yup, in Israel they're painting murals and naming streets in honour of dear Charlie... obviously only an antisemite would speculate that Israel was behind his murder! We have two competing and diametrically opposed narratives. Which way is Erika Kirk gonna jump?

Why does a wealthy country like Canada poach trained medical professionals from poverty-stricken third-world countries?

That's an easy one! Because it's way cheaper than educating our own! What are ya, stoopid? I got triggered by a story at CBC celebrating a couple of TV shows, "the Pitt," and "St. Denis Medical." What makes these shows celebration-worthy, is that Filipino health-care workers are finally being represented in popular culture. That's a happy thing! But here's what disturbs me. We've completely normalized the international brain drain that sucks the brains out of poor countries and relocates them in wealthy Western countries. That's just wrong. Look at the stats on the nurses that are the focus of the above shows. Canada has a GDP per capita of over $50k per year. We have, according to the latest numbers from the World Bank, more than 10 nurses per thousand population. The Phillipines has a GDP/capita of less than $4k, less than 10% of Canada's. They have less than half the nurses per thousand population of Canada. In other words, if we have a nursing shortage, their's is obviously more than twice as accute! Yet it's considered a happy thing that, instead of investing the money required to train our own health care workers, we prefer to lure them away from countries that need them way more than we do. That's disgusting!

Tyler Robinson; perp or patsy?

We don't know a whole lot about this kid yet, so it's hard to judge the credibility of the story, but he allegedly squeezed off a single shot from 200 yards that struck Charlie Kirk in the jugular. I'm not a hunter or a gun guy, and my sharpshooting experience is limited to keeping the squirrels away from the bird-feeder with my trusty .22 single shot. The birdfeeder is fifty feet from the stoop, and the squirrel population isn't in any danger of extinction. I have nothing but respect for the sniper who can hit a nickel-sized target at 200 yards. Which is why I'm inclined to think Tyler Robinson is a patsy. Unless of course it comes out that he was an elite sniper in the marines, but otherwise, we're looking for a different suspect. One with serious experience killing at a distance. Netanyahu's remarks on Kirk's assassination were interesting. Radical Islam plus radical Leftists have combined to destroy the Judeo-Christian tradition! Hmm... do you think it's possible that Bibi hasn't noticed Kirk's enthusiasm for Israel has been on the downtick lately? Of course not. Charlie Kirk was showing dangerous symptoms of contamination with the antisemitic virus that causes so many to turn against Israel just because they are carrying out Yaweh's command to exterminate the Amelites. At this point it's hard to know what to make of things, but my hunch is the actual perp is lounging on a Haifa beach by now.

Why Charlie Kirk had to go

I never paid much attention to Charlie Kirk. "Far right influencers" just aren't my bag. What little I knew revolved around his cheerleading for the state of Israel. When I read that Trump had identified a leftist conspiracy amongst Marxists and America-haters I thought, hold the phone; this is too cute by half. Everybody knows the so-called American Left couldn't organize a two car train, let alone a political assassination. This wasn't some random MAGA hater who brought his deer rifle to a campus Kirk event and squeezed off a single kill shot from 200 yards. That has the hallmarks of a professional sniper. There is a vast pool of sniper talent in the IDF. These guys have been honing their skills daily for almost two solid years, practicing on starving civilians in Gaza. A 200 yd kill shot is nothing for them. Back to the aforementioned cheerleading for Israel. There's certainly plenty of evidence for that, but what's he done for Israel lately? Turns out that lately he's been showing dangerous signs of developing both a conscience and a more nuanced understanding of the Gaza genocide. Somebody somewhere decided it would be best to nip this tendency in the neck, so to speak. It's far too potent a threat to Israel's hold on American public opinion to have the most popular young conservative leader, by far, undermining the Zionist narrative. That's why Charlie Kirk had to go.

Thank God for those Russian drones invading Poland!

On 9th September the biggliest story in the world was Israel's sneak attack on Doha. Doha hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East, and was hitherto considered a staunch US ally. Faux outrage erupted across the Western democracies. Countries that have rarely raised a peep over Israel's ongoing genocide of its Palestinians sputtered condemnations. Our own mediocrity of a Foreign Minister, Anita Anand, declared our solidarity with Qatar. Genocide facilitator Freddy Mertz took a break from merrily sending arms to the only democracy in the Middle East just long enough to declare that Israel had finally gone too far. Even the Bibi stooge in the White House announced himself displeased, as well he should be. After all, the US has invested hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to make Qatar a safe investment destination for billionaires like the Trump and Kushner clans. Trump's displeasure must be taken with a truckload of salt. Tellingly, not a single anti-aircraft missile was launched from the vast US arsenal that "protects" Qatar. By the morning of the 10th, Qatar had virtually disappeared from the headlines. Anita Anand declared our solidarity with... Poland! Yessiree Bob! You see, overnight, Israel's criminal attack on Doha was eclipsed by Russia's unprovoked drone attack on NATO! While up to nearly two dozen unarmed drones entered Polish airspace, only the heroism of the Polish air force forestalled NATO's imminent collapse. Looks like the genocidal state has slipped the hook again. Thank God for those Russian drones!

The collapse of Western Civilization

Things aren't looking that great for Western Civ. For one thing, the North Star of WC, the Holy Land, or rather, the usurpers of the Holy Land, the Zionist Cult American taxpayers never tire of subsidizing, no matter how grotesque their violations of any concept of "human rights," have become an absolute embarrassment to Western Civilization. I mean, how fucked up do you have to be to believe God wants you to starve children to death? Western Civ continues to stand by Israel. The Israel situation makes it kinda tough to argue that Western Civ is a beacon for this human rights thing. "Oh lookie! They've got a Pride Parade in Haifa!" If we in the supposedly advanced liberal democracies don't speak out against genocide, all the Pride Parades in the world will not erase our complicity in genocide. That's the way things are, and that's what the rest of the world sees when they look at the Trump-led "Free World." Western Civilization is collapsing before our eyes.

Mysteries of the Falling Downs dashboard

I'll admit right off the top I'm at the dense end of the retardation spectrum when it comes to "technology." In my world, technology means the power tools aisle at Home Depot. When I reformatted the page layout and did away with proper paragraphs - that wasn't me, that was Doublewide the cat walking over the keyboard. I stressed over that for a few months, and then I realized the numbers were going up, so why fix it? The numbers have been going up like crazy. According to the dashboard, it took about ten years for the first half million views. In the next five years, it added another million and a half. Those cannot be real numbers. For one thing, there's only 3 followers showing on the dashboard. Also, how can there be not even 400 comments on a blog that supposedly has well over 2 million views? And many of those comments were from one reader, Ken in Port Moody BC. Hope things are well with you, Ken! Here's my theory. A few years ago, the nascent AI industry started vacuuming up virtually all internet content to train their "Large Language" models. That explains my sudden popularity, in my opinion.

US gives up on China and Russia; will focus on Venezuelan narcoterrorists instead

It was the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barry O. who announced the “pivot to Asia” 14 years ago. That was literally the green flag that signaled the onset of the last decade and a half of constant Yellow Peril propaganda. The Canadian establishment, always eager to display their subservience to their betters in Washington, signed on to this anti-China campaign with great enthusiasm. That is how the great “two Michaels” PR stunt dominated our headlines for all those many days. We’ve been groomed by CBC and our newspaper of record to see China as our enemy. None of this sentiment originates in Canada. It’s Uncle Sam who sees China as a threat. That’s why the bombshell nobody noticed has been ignored. The Pentagon brass just told War Secretary Hegseth America was pivoting again. Yup… to heck with war on China… there’s gotta be easier adversaries to pick on! And whadya know, there are! America is abandoning the World Cop gig to focus on the Western Hemisphere! You know… instead of China, the Masters of the Universe will shift their bullying and extortion racket to their “allies” here in the Western Hemisphere. We can expect a lot of pressure from our besties in DC going forward. And the traditional American “enemies," the socialist-leaning countries like Nicaragua,Venezuela, and Cuba, are obviously screwed. It’s not hard to discern the reason for this latest pivot. In ‘21 President Biden presided over the shambolic retreat from Afghanistan, where America and her vassals spent a trillion dollars and spilled untold blood, mostly Afghan, to hand the country back to the Afghans they had tried to save it from. By ‘22 America’s PR department had recovered from that debacle, and was busy explaining to Russia, Iran, and China, that they’d best toe the US-dictated line if they knew what was good for them. Russia was the first to defy the Empire, and the Empire vowed dire consequences. The consequences thus far seem to be far more dire for the Empire than for Russia. Then the experts listened to NATO boss Rutte explain that Russia produced 3X the drones, missiles, and artillery shells of all NATO combined, and they inexplicably concluded they held a hand that would bring Putin to the negotiating table! That’s obviously so stupid you’d have to call it retarded, and I apologize in advance to any actual ‘tards who might understandably take offence. So what that pivot that the Pentagon realists dropped on Hegseth the other day really means is a good news/bad news story. The good news is the Empire is in retreat. The bad news is the Empire is consolidating in the Western Hemisphere. It will plunder and bully its vassals with total freedom. Blowing up alleged “narco-terrorists” off Venezuela is just a preview. All the entrepreneurs involved in the smuggling trade on the Great Lakes better take notice. And of course this puts a whole different spin on our elbows-up strategy. What good are elbows up when Uncle Sam has us by the balls, and is gonna keep squeezing until we beg to become the 51st state? We live in perilous times.

Obscure antisemitic blog pegged Bibi as the Messiah in 2012

The following are reprints of stuff from 2012 that seems relevant again. *** Netanyahu is the greatest leader of the Chosen People since Moses. At least according to the informal poll I conducted among shoppers at the Beth Ezekiel spring fund-raiser and rummage sale yesterday. That news should shore up the spirits of the man who has been taking more than the usual amount of abuse lately. Most recently it has been former spy chief and vindictive know-nothing Yuval Diskin grabbing headlines with his intemperate remarks about the Prime Minister. As spokepersons for both the Prime Minister and Barak were quick to point out, Diskin is a bitter man these days because his reign of error at Shin Bet is over and he was rightfully overlooked for the top spot at Mossad. So hold your head high and carry on, Mr. Prime Minister. Remember, they grumbled about Moses too. *** Crop Circles Reveal Netanyahu is Messiah! Yes, it's true! Right here at Falling Downs the crop circles are speaking! Wait just a minute, you say. It's April. There are no crops. The crops have yet to be seeded... how can there be "crop circles"? Ah, that is but the first miracle! When Jehovah speaks, He careth not for the season! See? Crops or no crops, you cannot silence the voice of the Almighty! Benyamin has been governing his entire career based on the voice of the Almighty. Matters not a whit that no one else hears that voice. And that in itself is proof enough for me that Benyamin Netanyahu is indeed the Messiah!

Canada still punishing Afghans because we lost war to Taliban

Had occasion to listen to multiple CBC newscasts on the car radio today. Sunday’s earthquake in Afghanistan featured in every one. Also featured in every one were commentators who stressed the importance of making sure none of our aid, such as it might be, fell into the hands of the Taliban. We want our aid to aid Afghan’s women and girls, not the Taliban. This is profoundly churlish, stupid, and counterproductive. In the first place, how do these people propose to help women and girls without helping the men in their lives? Further, whether we like it or not, the Taliban are the government. The fact that many American Empire Loyalists across Canadian government and media remain in bitter denial about that fact doesn’t make it go away. The Taliban government is asking for international help, and we should do what we can. It was the “little guy from Shawinigan” who made the decision to put Canadian troops in harms way, and 148 of them paid the ultimate price; in a country utterly irrelevant to any conceivable Canadian interests. What motivated Chretien had nothing to do with Canadian interests and everything to do with currying Uncle Sam’s favour. Harper deserves some credit for recognizing the obvious. The dumbshits in DC stuck with their Afghan folly another seven years after Harper pulled the plug on our participation. They spent twenty years and a trillion dollars fighting the Taliban and losing. Within six months of their shambolic retreat they were promising Ukraine “whatever it takes for as long as it takes” to whup Russia. They just lost a war to a bunch of illiterate goat herders and opium farmers, but they’ve got the wherewithal to ensure Ukrainian victory over Russia? Somebody in Kyiv didn’t do their due diligence before they signed up for that nonsense! Check out the Wikipedia page on international relations of Afghanistan. The 16 countries opposing recognition of the Taliban are all NATO members or otherwise US vassals like Chile. The current list of countries with de facto diplomatic relations with the Taliban runs to 26, including most of those in attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization shindig just concluded in China, a world-historic event that got scant coverage in Western media. Oddly enough, our ongoing betrayal of our one-time Afghan allies remains… ongoing. We’ve heard all about the interpreters and assorted “fixers,” rightly seen in their country as traitors for collaborating with the invaders. We promised them safe passage to Canada for themselves and their families. And so we should. I believe we have a moral obligation to these people. Their lives are understandably at risk, as were the lives of the Nazi collaborators in Western Europe after the WWII. Eleven years after we quit the war, we’re still doing everything we can to avoid our obligations to those Afghans who risked everything to help us. That’s despicable.