February 12, 2003

BACK TO AFGHANISTAN Kabul this

BACK TO AFGHANISTAN

Kabul this time, not Kandahar. Yes, it is a rather odd time to send all your readily available soldiers on a traditional UN peacekeeping mission, but not if you want to keep the Americans from asking to borrow them for something else, I suppose. We're certainly not taking any weight off the Americans with this new deployment, either: it doesn't help them a bit. What it does show is this government's determination to stick with the UN ideal right to the end, regardless. Considering what a large role Canadians have had in creating and sustaining that organization, that does make a certain degree of rational sense. But this is definitely going to eat into any budget increase that might have otherwise have been coming to the army next week. Still, I'm sure we'll do some good over there.

Posted by BruceR at 05:04 PM

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THIS MAN'S EYEBROWS SCARE THE HELL OUT OF ME

scary eyebrow man
NATO spokesman Yves Brodeur. It's hard to believe they found someone to serve as their senior flack who is even funnier looking than Jamie Shea. What, was the bearded lady unavailable, so they had to go with the Caterpillar Eyebrow Man?

Posted by BruceR at 04:45 PM