Editorial on CBC's National

[Trinity]

Watch the CBC National tonight.

I'm in shock with what they are showing.

I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing but a one sided
editorial on how we shouldn't have equipment that saves our lives
overseas and yet we should be able to do our job???


EDIT

- that trust with the civilians and not our equipment will keep Canadians safe?
And we should model the Dutch forces. 

Someone more eloquent that me can describe how out of touch this story is.

 

[Cdn Blackshirt]

Who was it who did the editorial?


Matthew.  ???

 

[deedster]

Watch the CBC National tonight.

I'll watch  AND watch (this thread). 

 

[George Wallace]

- that trust with the civilians and not our equipment will keep Canadians safe?
And we should model the Dutch forces. 

;D  We are!

We are buying 100 of their (Dutch) Leopard 2's.

;D

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

The Dutch are junk.  Not their fault per se.  I hope their timidness can be chalked up to their home gov't screwing around.  Either way there junk because they can't or wouldn't do what was necessary.  Just to add some evidence
left the battle during Op Medusa leaving A Coy's flank widely exposed  (they just left, no reason given)
Super high ceiling for their Apaches.  The wouldn't engage a hut unless we were being shoot at, at that exact moment.
The troops barely ever left KAF.
I'm sure I could think of more and to be fair the troops seemed good but their inaction made them useless.

 

[George Wallace]

......and we are getting Chinooks again.  ............Just like (but better than) what we sold the Dutch years ago. 

Are we getting close yet?

 

[GAP]

My email to [email protected]

This is a joke right?

I think this woman journalist has been sampling something from her homeland. What an utter waste of bandwidth

 

[a_majoor]

Transcript please

 

[CF_Enthusiast]

I can't believe this. I'm watching right now and she is very wrong about alot of her points. This is the kind of crap that shouldn't be aired. This is the Canadian Broadcasting Channel, it should represent the views of all Canadians. Not just the leftists, un-informed, preachers who when it really came down to it, if they had their way, the earth would be a smoldering hunk of rock floating in space.

 

[MikeM]

The Dutch are junk.  Not their fault per se.  I hope their timidness can be chalked up to their home gov't screwing around.  Either way there junk because they can't or wouldn't do what was necessary.  Just to add some evidence
left the battle during Op Medusa leaving A Coy's flank widely exposed  (they just left, no reason given)
Super high ceiling for their Apaches.  The wouldn't engage a hut unless we were being shoot at, at that exact moment.
The troops barely ever left KAF.
I'm sure I could think of more and to be fair the troops seemed good but their inaction made them useless.

Just to add, when they relived us up north for the duration of Medusa, they did ZERO patrolling.. just sat in the FOB.. rediculous.

 

[MarkOttawa]

Kiss your Afghan dreams goodbye
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/05/kiss-your-afghan-dreams-goodbye.html

Mark
Ottawa

 

[George Wallace]

Just saw it on NewsWorld and she is 'not of this world'.  Yes, she saw the Russians in Afghanistan when she was a child.  She was there and is now here.  Whoopee!  She doesn't understand what is required.  She doesn't understand what has to be done first to guarantee what she envisions should happen can safely be carried out. 

Being as she is an Afghan, she may make a great 'Translator' and should go over with the Troops and work with them, before she starts to mouth her comments about 'heroes' again.  Until then, perhaps she should take a more reserved stance. and STFU.

 

[Scoobs]

Wow, I didn't actually think that CBC would sink to a new low, but they did.  One sided doesn't sum it up.  More like anti-war propaganda, peace nik, you get the point.  How does CBC put someone on TV that obviously doesn't know much about the reality of the situation in Afghanistan.  Ok, she is from there and lived there, but please send her there to negotiate with the Taliban, as she proposes.  We'll see how quickly she gets a positive response from them.  For those wishing to see the video, just go to cbc.ca and go to TV.  There is a link there for the National.  I just watched it online.

 

[The_Falcon]

Wow, biased and unbalanced doesn't even begin to describe that tripe. Yet one more reason the CBC should be sold off, to think I paid for part of that, makes me physically ill.

 

[RangerRay]

This is the reason why I stopped watching/listening to CBC long ago.  It is a publicly funded broadcaster that only seems to broadcast left-wing tripe, rather than present a balance of both sides of an opinion.

It cannot be privatised soon enough for me.

 

[daftandbarmy]

She came across as a complete air head and a poor spokesperson for the loonie left. I doubt that anyone, bar the truly dillusional minority in this country, took her seriously (whatever her message was). The people she interviewed on the trade show floor came across as far more credible and lucid.

Nice necklace though... not.

 

[MikeFraser]

I thought the good bit was her breathless fear of seeing a soldier or military vehicle in Ottawa.  That's even too far for the wobbly old Pierre Trudeau

Trudeau: Yes, well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of ...

Ralfe: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that?

Trudeau: Well, just watch me.

Becky Afghani seems to share the Liberal Party ignorance and fear ("Soldiers in our cities, with guns, in Canada, I'm not making this up."), but she has also violated the CBC's favorite clip of old St Pierre the Divine.

 

[a_majoor]

Funny that this:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,587237,00.html

Nelofer Pazira, the Afghan-Canadian star of Kandahar, is angry. She is angry that the land of her childhood has been seized by ignorant religious bigots whose idea of education is that young boys should be forced to memorise Koranic Arabic they do not understand and wage jihad against a West they understand even less. She is angry that books and musical instruments and televisions are all banned by the religious police. She is angry that schoolfriends left behind in Afghanistan cannot leave their homes unaccompanied for fear of execution and that women who once worked as doctors and teachers are reduced to the daily humiliation of the burqa, the only everyday clothing ever designed as a walking prison. She hates the Taliban and she is angry that the West has ignored these human rights abuses for so long.

Does not translate into support for what we are doing. I suppose she thinks there is a magic wand that will make the Taliban dissapear or something.

 

[Wookilar]

I watched the whole sordid mess last night also.

The thing that gets me the most is that there are a lot of people saying how the violence will not stop, we must stop, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, blahblahblah. BUT, they are not only unwilling to negotiate themselves, they seem to expect us (the military) to negotiate for them.

It seems to me, that as long as they have their faces on camera, but not in any danger at all, they have the luxury to direct from the sidelines. Until any of these people actually become willing to walk the walk and actually smell the air over there and are willing to sit down and talk with our so-called opponents, they should not be given any air time at all. It is just all empty posturing and I am dissapointed in the vast majority of the media that are not doing their job for not exposing it as such.

 

[Fraz]

This woman has gleefully chosen the Dutch as the model for how we should adapt our ops and tactics to emulate... Not to steal any of the thunder from the previous posts, but were it not for those 'caveats' the dutch would have stayed on our flanks during Medusa, actually provided close Helo support (instead of flying at 20 000 or so feet) and patrolled around there FOB's.  If it was possible to enforce this Utopian view of everyone banging their swords into plowshares, hell I'd be all for it.  However, what miss Pazira doesn't understand is that you can't have one without the other. Security HAS to be in place for reconstruction and development to take place.  Perhaps, if she reread news headlines from last fall, she would realize that we spent the better part of a tour building and defending a road... (GASP, that sounds an awful lot like reconstruction), as well as the numerous VMO's and shirra's.  I won't even begin to comment on her thoughts about us getting new Herc's.  When will the ignorance end...?