Winnipeg Sun | 08Aug2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/letters/2010/08/06/14948096.html
Harper changes tune
In March 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper affirmed his government’s
commitment to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan, telling hundreds
of soldiers there that Canada won’t “cut and run” so long as he’s in
charge. “You can’t lead from the bleachers. I want Canada to be a
leader,” he told Canadian troops at the Kandahar airfield base the day
after he arrived.
With no victory in sight, following a decision by the Harper government
the bulk of Canadian forces will, regardless, within a year have left
Afghanistan. It seems, Harper no longer cares if Canada is a “leader”
on the world stage, that Canadians should now be content to merely sit
out events in “the bleachers” far from the decision-making levers of
power. The won’t-cut-and-run Stephen Harper of 2006 would surely hold
this more reasonable and accommodating 2010 version of Stephen Harper’s
political persona in low regard.
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alta.
(Circumstances have
changed since ’06.)
Comments
WOW, Orest is really stretching things to get a shot in at Harper. Had
the Captain of the Titanic changed course things might have turned
different, damn the torpedos, full speed ahead is a motto that can
often be found in grave yards. It seems Orest is from the" hey watch
this" crowd but Harper has done more for the Canadian military than
any, bar none, than any other peacetime leader. Things change and if
you explore the history of our involvement in this war then do not
forget the perfidious machinations of the liberals and dippers.
jk, August 8th 2010, 7:39am