The Greening of the Sahara

Why are so many Canadians dead sqeamish about Afghanistan yet apparently willing to taste blood over Darfur? The Green Party leader, Dizzy Lizzy May, says in a press release that...

...“The Manley Report fails to consider that the recommendation of more ISAF forces from a Christian/Crusader heritage will continue to fuel an insurgency that has been framed as a ‘Jihad’..."

What then does she think might face the Canadian troops that the Greens wanted to be ready to invade Muslim Sudan, in order to save Darfur?

...There, Ms. May is not overly concerned about the prospects for jihad. In fact, she actively encourages the Canadian government to lead a "rapid reaction force" of middle powers, deployed to a country bordering Sudan and "ready to intervene, if necessary." Thus, the Greens are against continuing with a UN mission in a country where the foreign forces have been welcomed by the democratically elected government, but are in favour of a full-fledged invasion of Sudan...

Now that policy statement was from September, 2006. I guess Dizzy Lizzy missed Osama bin Laden's threat, several months earlier, of jihad against any Western intervention in Darfur. Ms. May still seems "a few helicopters short of heavy-lift capacity", as John Ivison puts it in his column just quoted. Moreover, where in 2006 did she think the Canadian Forces would find the troops for her imagined "rapid reaction" force?

Mark C.

Posted by markc at January 25, 2008 08:37 PM