Bill Carroll, a talk radio host from Toronto, (www.cfrb.com) appears on Global News most nights and comments briefly on one or two matters of interest. I find his comments insightful and direct. Every day, its a breath of fresh air to hear someone from Toronto talk who has such a grasp of logic.
His comment last night was in regards to the idea that Canada should cut and run from Afghanistan. He said that proponents of this idea are either political opportunists or cowards.
Bill Carroll is right.
Canada has traditions that have been forgotten by many. We fight for justice. We fight for peace. We do more than our share. We are not just peace keepers.
We do not cut and run. We do not negotiate with those who would threaten us. We do not coddle those who would gladly bring their tyranny and hatred and intolerance to our country.
Jack Layton suggests we do all that. Moreover, he suggests we act as peace keepers in this conflict as if we are somehow apart from all the conflict. I would argue that there is no peace to keep. And I would further argue that the only peace we can achieve with an enemy as intransigent as this is through annihilation. They will not stop with the expulsion of the West from Afghanistan. They will not stop with the destruction of the State of Israel either. They will stop when the West is annihilated. Its quite clearly us or them.
Jack Layton is wrong.
There is no appeasing an enemy who will always hate us for what we are, open, democratic, tolerant and generous. I cannot fathom how anyone can believe that fundamentalist Muslims want anything close to what we would consider peace. In there distorted view of Islam, peace is achieved when all who are not Muslim or will not convert are exterminated. These people (I talk of the fundamentalist Muslims, not Muslims as a whole) do not want dialogue but will gladly ‘chit chat’ with us while they plot against us.
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