Saturday, December 12, 2009

Prisoner issue turns into dangerous test of wills –James Tavers in The Star, Dec.12th.

I am disappointed and chagrined to see the Afghan prisoner transfers problem turn into another political standoff in our Parliament. Prime Minister Harper seems to have a penchant for brinkmanship, but this issue could become a constitutional debacle.
We are at war in Afghanistan, and these things happen in war. If an error was made, it can be corrected for the future, without using it as a political football. Talk of an inquiry is as foolish as is Harper’s intransigence. It ought to be possible for men of good will to resolve this tempest in a teapot and get on with solving real problems.

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