Permission to Think It Through
Doonesbury author (and yes, it's a comic, but he's still an author) really has a gift for putting things simply.
From today's strip:
"Really [sarge]? So if congress doesn't support the troops, I go home to my family, but if they do support us, we have to keep returning to the meat grinder?"
[...]
"Permission to think it through denied."
posted by Metro @ 5:39 am
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That is one thing that we didn't quite get from the British parliamentary tradition - the concept of the legislative chess maneuver when it comes to control of the military. That's why, since the mid 1600's, there's a Royal Navy and a British Army
I didn't know that. Here the politics isn't as obvious as it's been down there lately.
I'm too jaded to believe that Stephen Harper has any respect for such a vague concept as "professionalism," so I chalk it up to Harper not wanting his war record questioned.
It's the question I really want someone to ask:
"Mr. Harper, if you'd been in charge in 2003, how many Canadian troops would have died in Iraq so far and how many would still be there?"
--Follwed up with:
"And how much 'safer' would we be than we are now?"
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