David Warren: Surrender? Tyranny won't quit, so we mustn't.

The Ottawa Citizen ^ | January 28, 2004 | David Warren

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The news from Afghanistan yesterday should have been the enactment of the new national constitution, painfully agreed by the Loya Jirga ("grand assembly") that met in Kabul through December, which ratified it on Jan. 4th. The constitution became law Monday, by the decree of President Hamid Karzai, signing beside the former king, Zaher Shah, in an old palace now occupied by the Afghan foreign ministry. Such modest media coverage as it drew was quickly overtaken by the latest terrorist blast in the city, which claimed the life of one Canadian.

There will be national elections in June; they will be extremely hard to pull off, in a vast country still largely under the rule of warlords, none of whom stand to benefit from the centralized government that is supposed to emerge. The new constitution creates a conventional two-chamber Parliament, an independent judiciary, and a strong presidency. Its most controversial feature, for Afghanistan, is a declaration of equality between men and women, approved by the Loya Jirga under American duress.

Our latest Canadian casualties were suffered in one of about a dozen terrorist incidents around the country, most of them in the Pashto territory of the south and east, as usual. As well, four people were killed by mistake, when a car failed to stop at a checkpoint in Helmand province. In the dark, the driver of the car thought the soldiers were robbers; a deadly firefight ensued.

According to the Afghan police report, our Kabul bomber waited by a bump in the road, that would slow down the Canadian jeep, then jumped aboard it and detonated a bomb strapped to his chest. No one got a good enough look at him to guess if he were Afghan, Arab, or Pakistani — just a long beard, and now a lot of minced flesh. Someone claiming to be a Taliban spokesman called U.S. television networks to claim the bomber was an Afghan jihadi from Khost province.

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BUMP!

[Lando Lincoln]

Thanks seamole for completing the post. I tire of the needlessly excerpted articles. I'm hopeful the LM can help clarify.

Lando

[BOBTHENAILER]

but we must never again surrender to those bastards.

Truer words were never spoken. Great post.

[quidnunc]

Lando Lincoln wrote: Thanks seamole for completing the post. I tire of the needlessly excerpted articles. I'm hopeful the LM can help clarify.

I have an idea.

Don't open any of the threads I start, that way you won't be annoyed.

After all, you wouldn't be any less the wiser than you would be if you didn't know the article existed — which would be the case if I didn't find it and post an excerpt.

[Lando Lincoln]

I meant no insult. I routinely and regularly follow Warren. When I see an article posted at FR which is credited to him, I am anxious to read his insights. Having said that, it is perfectly acceptable to post his full articles as long as the Ottawa Citizen or his site is properly credited. There is no copyright infringement - as I understand it. I, in turn, asked for clarification, agreement or disagreement from the Lead Moderator. Sorry it ticked you off. But, I am convinced that you are needlessly excerpting those articles.

All the best,

Lando

[quidnunc]

In my estimation Free Republic is not entitled to a fair-use ememption, therefore posting copyrighted material in toto is a no-no.

Go to the Stanford U Copyright & Fair Use Center and take a look for yourself:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/index.html

Then go read Free Republic's terms-of-use agreement carefully.

With copyright becoming a nation-wide hot-button issue recently I'm simply not going to take chances.

[Clock King]

I saw the trailer for Osama. I will very likely go see the film. It should be required viewing for all namby-pamby leftists who would have us "get out". See how women were reduced to something less than animals under this regime. We should have smashed them long before 9.11

[Tolik]

David Warren - Clear-thinking Canadian -  BUMP  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to David Warren articles]

If you want to bookmark his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-davidwarren/browse

His own website: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com

His page at the Ottawa Citizen: http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/columnists/davidwarren.html

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Beat ya this time.
But thanks anyway.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!