What Manley missed
Posted on January 27, 2008
Filed Under Politics, News |
globeandmail.com: Afghan journalist sentenced to death
An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
The trial was secret and one of the judges stated that he did not actually see the material. Should Canada continue to support this type of government? The Manley report thinks so, but it seems to only focus on the battle front.
It dares not question the reasons for being there. Did Cpl. Étienne Gonthier know that he just gave up his short 21 years for a country where a 23 year-old is going to be executed for a Right and Freedom Cpl. Gonthier was born with. Maybe the Report should have been looking a the bigger, global picture. Such as sacrificing Canadian troops in a region where they could save lives in Darfur instead of supporting a government that (a) still uses the death penalty and (b) death to someone who did not physical harm to any person, based on a judgment where the offending material was not seen. Oh wait, Canada’s New Government(TM) also supports (a).
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