It was hockey night in Kandahar this evening.
Before the Leafs- Rangers match we were treated to a parade of Canadian Forces folks doing camera takes with the loved ones they had left behind when they embarked on their duty to defend us from the towel-headed evil-doers over in Afghanistan.
Do they even know that as they are taking their bows at the Air Canada Centre the big dogs at NATO/ISTAF are negotiating a peace agreement with the very Taliban they've been fighting for ten years?
I love hockey. I used to play the game, at a very minor level. I have watched Hockey Night in Canada since the early 60's.
I am disgusted with how the people who run the game today are happy to sell out to political interests.
Hockey Night in Canada is a sure-fire audience. It consistently has among the highest ratings in Canadian television. That is just too juicy a market for our politicians to resist.
Almost 160 Canadians made the ultimate sacrifice in our Afghan adventure. Thousands suffered life-altering injuries. We are now negotiating "peace" with the very people we went over there to remove from power.
Sorry folks, that's a war we lost.
Which doesn't slow down the politicians who want to wring a few votes out of it.
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