Afghanistan

Written by R A
The Leader’s stopover in Afghanistan was first and foremost simply the right thing to do, and a significant policy decision (if not quite the “historic addition to Canadian military history” that the Post labeled it as). It also distinguished him from the previous incumbent, who never would have made the trip. And it deflected media attention from the bubbling crises of the previous week (Emerson, Shapiro, etc). The political plus is that it makes the PM look more resolute, which in fact he is. The other side is that it raises the profile of the whole issue. The original Crouton-Dithers policy, based on the principle of minimizing inconvenience, was to try to placate the Americans by going along with them on Afghanistan while catering to the soft anti-Americanism of much of the Liberal base by not endorsing what we were actually doing.
....(Continued on My Conservative Dreamworld)