I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Sometimes left-wingers get it too
January 22, 2008
“We recognize the conflict in Afghanistan as a liberation struggle, waged by the Afghan people and their allies, against oppression, against obscurantism, illiteracy, and the most brutal forms of misogyny. It is a fight for democracy, and for peace, order, and good government. It is also a struggle waged by the sovereign Government of Afghanistan, a member state of the United Nations, against illegal armed groups that seek to overturn the democratic will of the Afghan people. In Afghanistan, the great global struggle for the recognition and protection of basic human rights � universal rights - is being waged with a particular and necessary ferocity. We cannot and must not retreat from that struggle.”
And the Manley Commission recommends that Canada renew its commitment to Afghanistan and extend the mission deadline past Febrary 2009, possibly taking it into 2011 if needed.
“We often seek to define Canada’s role in the world. Well, for whatever reason, we have one in Afghanistan. Let’s not abandon it too easily,” Manley wrote last fall in a Canadian political journal following a return visit to Afghanistan in May 2007.
“But let’s use our hard-earned influence to make sure the job is done right.”
It’s really nice to hear this sort of level-headed honesty coming from a former of Canada cabinet minister (John Manley), although I imagine that is somewhere blowing a fuse over this.
