Editorial on CBC's National

[The Bread Guy]

I guess she didn't read this recent tidbit on how the Dutch approach seems to be working in some areas:

"....The police units in the province were in worse shape and more poorly led. At many remote posts few officers were on duty and officers wore civilian clothes, not uniforms.

Many posts also have separate tribal allegiances and do not cooperate tactically, Western military officials said.

"They just have their own islands and protect their families and protect their villages and that is it," said a Dutch officer, Captain Ninke. (Dutch military rules allow most deployed soldiers to be identified only by rank and first name.)

The Dutch were also trying to encourage the local police to act against a group of Taliban who had stolen a police truck.

Two local chiefs, Abdul Karim and Sadiq, said their general had told them that whoever captured the truck could keep it, so they were trying to steal the truck back, rather than kill the Taliban driving it.

"Do you know how hard it is to capture a truck from the Taliban without damaging it?" Sadiq asked.

Poppy cultivation was also widespread at, or near, the police posts. At best, the police were tolerating the trade, the Dutch said. At worst, they were part of it ...."

One sided, indeed, but I wasn't too cranked.  It's interesting she's bringing together elements of the whole "if we don't fight, we don't piss people off" approach, using the backdrop of an arms trade show.  What she DOESN'T do in her nine minutes or so is realistically answer the question:  "So, what do we do to stop the Taliban from blowing up the schools, cutting off the innoculated arms, and burning down the clinics when good deeds ARE done?" If the general populace were able to keep the Taliban away, they wouldn't need help, no?

I'll share the complete transcript when ready....

 

[bily052]

WOW...  I nominate Nelofer Pazira to lead the "Negotiations" with the Taliban.  She would go in unarmed, un-armoured and without a Burka.  Lets see how far she could make it on the road to peace.
But then again, this is Canada.  We are doing our part as soldiers to give people like this the "freedom" to speak their opinions.
Just my $0.02

Billy 

 

[Danjanou]

And for those who missed it or are just gluttons for punishment

http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/militaryafghanistan/i_witness_arms_for_sale.html

 

[baac]

It was like watching Southpark, but it wasn't funny: "Children, war is bad, m'kay..."

Was that an editorial? Was it supposed to be journalism? Seriously, what the hell was that? What was that crack about the helicopters and the new aircraft? When did journalism become holding up a brochure at a trade show and making faces? (We could buy these planes, or we could plant flowers. Won't someone think of the children?!)

B

 

[Flip]

Yea, I got pissed off too.
The usual implications are all there.
The military approach is indescriminate......
All military hardware is bad..............

She needs to have the facts shared with her. - she has no clue.
Take the C130 s in her article;
How many tons of food and medical supplies have been dropped by
each Canadain C130 during it's long career?  How much humanitarian aid has
been delivered? - Perhaps more than Dutch C130s.

If Canadian veterans could communicate to her three things;

Her premise is false and grossly misrepresents the Canadian effort.
The europeans can only do what they do because of safety provided by others.
Her efforts undermine what she cares about most. Peace in Afghanistan.

She has to have her nose rubbed in it.

 

[CF_Enthusiast]

Does anyone know CBC's address. I feel like writing a letter compaining about their apparent lack of knowlegde in the situation and I will ask for an apology.

The truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing but the truth. 

 

[GAP]

national@cbc.ca

 

[niner domestic]

Here is her Bio: http://jfilm.org/rtk/neloferbio.htm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0969891/

Her book: http://www.writerscafe.ca/book_blogs/writers/nelofer-pazira_a-bed-of-red-flowers.php

And her not so "fist raising tirade at the war machine" interview: http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?node=features/interviews/pazira

My spidey senses are telling me this is all in preparation for an application for funding to make a new documentary/book. 

I'm getting quite tired of persons who are making a living off the backs of the Afghan people and claiming to have their best interests at heart.  *sigh*

 

[The Bread Guy]

And, as promised, the transcript ...

 

[IN HOC SIGNO]

All I could think of while I was watching this pathetic garbage was how much fun she'd have if the Taliban were back in charge and she actually lived in Afghanistan. We would not have been able to view her pretty face and long hair on TV....she would have been hidden head to toe in a a shapeless burka and beaten for speaking to strange men in a public setting....and oh yeah she wouldn't have the education to read the brochures and comphrehend the amounts spent on munitions and new equipment. Isn't the world an ironic place? ???

 

[observor 69]

My thoughts on her commentary,

[Entire reply self censored]

 

[Jacqueline]

Any half decent person is going to be able to recognize the heavy bulge on this one sided piece of crap report. She has so much things to say about something she don't really understand. She's strange to me, more jerk in her than media lies.

 

[CrazyCanuck]

Trust in the Goodwill of the People?
Well not when they're trying to kill me and note to this person there is such thing as "bad" people, though as that is a relative term she seems to think we are the 'bad' people.
Remember there is always less duds in a mag than a crowd of so-called "informants"