A professor as pure propagandist

Here's a ringing call for Canada to act as a superpower in Africa (or maybe simply as an imperialist, or at the very least neo-colonialist, state) from a certain professor whose dreams would seem to far exceed his country's--or his intelligence's--grasp:

In Afghanistan, it's time to move from a combat-oriented approach to one that focuses on negotiation, peacemaking and nation-building.

It's time to ensure that Canadian soldiers are never complicit in prisoner abuse by stopping detainee transfers until the Afghan prison system has been comprehensively reformed.

It's time to move NATO troops out, and UN peacekeepers in.

And then, let's get serious about the "responsibility to protect" where it's needed most: in Africa.

Let's make sure the UN peacekeeping missions in Darfur and Congo succeed. Let's help bring peace to northern Uganda and a change of government in Zimbabwe...

How come we aren't going to save Somalia too? Must have just been an oversight...

Prof. Byers still seems unable to recognize the fact that, since NATO forces in Afghanistan are authorized by the UN Security Council, they are de jure "UN peacekeepers". But I believe the apparently power-drunk professor knows the facts fully well; it seems like he's just cynically trying to mislead the Canadian people by taking advantage of their ignorance about Afghanistan.

Or could it be that he really wants "UN peacekeepers", as part of a UN-run mission, essentially to stand by and watch whilst the Taliban slaughter whom they will? Sort of like what may happen again in Darfur. The professor is pure, ideological, anti-American politics. Nothing else, and a complete disgrace to the professoriat - not that that's saying much these days.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at January 3, 2008 09:06 PM