National Post, Saturday April 2 2011:
Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people.
This is what we're fighting for in Afghanistan folks: barbarians who will kill any westerner (or anyone working for them) they can find to "avenge" burning a book (title link). I don't give a rat's ass about the "holiness" of a mass produced article, it's a thing, and civilized people don't kill people over burning a book, a TV or anything else that is easily replaceable.
In the other-things-that-are-getting-less-press department, if you haven't heard of Veena Malik you really need to. She is a babe-a-licious Pakistani actress, but more importantly she has vast intestinal fortitude. The Taliban are predictably threatening to kill her and they give this as their position on women, in case anyone was unclear:
"We want our daughters and sisters in our homes only and Veena Malik, who is humiliating Pakistan's name in India, will be punished soon."
I'm happy that Canada is getting out, but NATO and the US need to leave too and leave Afghanistan and Pakistan to stew in their Islamic juice. Hopefully as many of the good people from both countries (but a lot more in Pakistan) can do something else, but I'm doubting it. Now we're involved in a formless campaign in Libya and I can't see any good coming of that either. Oh well; if nothing else at least I'm certain that there will be no significant contribution of Canadian troops to Libya no matter what happens. We don't need another 9-year war now that we're finally getting out of Afghanistan.
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