Rick Salutin has a column in today's Globe&Mail on the Colvin testimony from yesterday. He too is suggesting that the lesson here is that the Afghan mission is deeply flawed, is enhancing if not increasing the efficacy of those it claims to fight and should be ended as soon as possible.
Yet like the Peter Desbarats interview I described earlier, I think this misses the point. Mr. Colvin is suggesting that we are complicit in the same war crimes that we so loudly condemn the U.S. for. If what he has claimed is true, and I see far less reason to doubt his veracity than I do officials such as Minister McKay or former CDS Rick Hillier, then an extremely serious crime has been committed. This deserves to be investigated in the most transparent manner possible. It is not a matter of spin or image or polling but of justice. And until justice is done, the current minister needs to stand aside.
No comments:
Post a Comment