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.
The NDP sides with the Taliban
February 4, 2008
According to Ban Ki-moon, Jack Layton is one of many who seem only too eager to repeat the mistakes of history by abandoning Afghanistan.
And what would they be abandoning? Apparently a nation on its way to turning things around.
The Afghan National Army is enjoying battlefield successes. Thanks to Afghan farmers, Afghanistan is achieving self-sufficiency in agriculture. There is safe water for many, and a widespread immunization program. There are more women in the Afghan parliament than in Canada (28% in Afghanistan versus 21% in Canada).
But none of this matters. That all these successes would be undone the moment the Taliban were to regain power does not matter. That soldiers and civilians from Canada and from around the world have sacrificed so much to push the Taliban back and show the Afghan people just what life could be like does not matter.
That 9/11 could happen all over again does not matter.
The Taliban will win. The Taliban must win. According to Jack Layton, it is a historical inevitability, and no effort mustered by Canadian soldiers and no sacrifice borne by their families can change what must be.
There is a pretty distinct line between legitimate criticism of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan and openly advocating for Canada’s enemies to defeat our troops in the field. Jack Layton (and presumably the rest of his party) is way over the line, on the latter of the two sides of it listed above.
