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more Redneck Common sense by Salim Mansur

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There is gathering uneasiness across our world, a sense of things gone wrong and that we dare not give voice to our concerns or, more likely, fears.

A very young, brave and beautiful trooper, Karine Blais, dies in distant Afghanistan and Canadians search for the reason why such a price should be paid for a mission that is increasingly clouded by uncertainty.

Another young woman, a Pakistani in the district of Swat not far from the Afghan border, is publicly flogged by Taliban militia for allegedly being seen in the company of a man who is not her relative.

Her flogging is captured on camera and viewed around the world as further evidence of how utterly depraved is the society where women are routinely given such treatment.

If this is not enough, we get more of the same when some Afghan women take courage to publicly demand repeal of recently passed laws that make marital rape permissible, and are confronted by Afghan men in the streets of Kabul pelting stones at them.

There is piracy in the high seas along the Somalia coast and warnings from regional experts that Pakistan is a failed state with nuclear weapons, sliding perilously close to internal conflict along ethnic divisions and fragmentation.

In the Middle East the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can no longer mask the fault line of the much bigger regional confrontation in the making. This is the rivalry -- with real fear of nuclear proliferation -- escalating in the Persian Gulf area as the Shiite alliance of Iran and Syria with their surrogates -- the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas -- seeks dominance over the Sunni partnership of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

In Africa the death toll keeps rising in places such as Congo and Darfur, and the misery index of places such as Zimbabwe and now increasingly South Africa, tell us about a continent incapable on its own to make things any better for a despairing population.

And then there is the West with its present crop of leaders offering apology for wrongs long past, as if such public display of guilt will hold back the anarchy being let loose upon our world.

When we need a Churchill, a Reagan, a Lady Thatcher in our midst, we are surrounded by Neville Chamberlains rushing to appease warmongers such as Iran's Ahmadinejad. When we need clear thinking and clear prose to dismantle our false sense of safety, we find instead the weakening of our critical faculties essential for discriminating between our friends and our foes.

The poet T.S. Eliot, writing in 1935 under similar circumstances when the world lurched towards unimaginable hell observed, "human kind/ Cannot bear very much reality." Eliot's haunting words, from the time when barbarians of the period organized unchecked and gathered speed, ring increasingly true once again in present times.

See the reality

If the death of trooper Karine Blais, and of others who were the best and bravest among Canadians in Afghanistan, are not to be merely statistics in a misbegotten mission we must then awaken to the reality around us.

The West is confronted by an enemy clearly recognizable at war against its values of individual freedom and reason. The enemy is the Islamists. And either the West resolves to defeat the Islamists, or must bear the havoc they spread.

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For those that don't know who Karine Blais is:

Caring for Karine

Sending our daughters to war in Afghanistan is just wrong

By MICHAEL COREN

So Canada sacrifices another victim on the altar of equality.

Last week a young girl dressed up as a soldier died in the increasingly futile and pointless war in Afghanistan. She was 21 years old, had been in the country for two weeks on her first tour of duty and probably weighed a little over 100 pounds.

Please know that I mean no disrespect to Karine Blais or to her family and I grieve for her and them. But what on earth was she doing in such a place and in such a job?

Look at the photograph of this beautiful girl. Look at the innocence, the gentleness, the grace. All of them precious aspects to the human character. So when I say that she was "dressed up as a soldier" I mean it as a compliment. I've known soldiers all of my life and I have an invincible respect for them. I've seen their courage, integrity and sheer decency.

I've also seen their capacity for controlled and righteous violence, which is absolutely essential for any fighting man. Yes, man. Because there are few if any women who have the skills required to serve as a front-line combat trooper.

Yes, yes, yes, I know it's fundamentally anti-Canadian to say this but I'd prefer to articulate the views of the silent majority than hide behind some modernist fetish that places more importance on the myth of absolute equality than the safety of a girl who should be laughing with college friends rather than fighting theocratic madmen.

Can we really imagine for a moment that if a group of Taliban tribesmen rushed a trench or an encampment this poor young woman could fight them off, could deal with the thrusts of their long knives and heavy clubs? Do we seriously think that the men in the unit would not risk their own lives to protect a pretty young girl who was inevitably being beaten to the ground by salivating killers?

The very reason we have various weight categories for all forms of organized fighting is that whatever the training, a pugilist's weight and muscle bulk give an advantage to the heavier combatant.

More than this, even contrived cultural denial should not prevent us from admitting that the death of a daughter or a wife is different from that of a son or a husband. Women nurture, give birth, care in a way that is unique. Quite simply, they are different from men.

If captured, of course, such a woman would be repeatedly raped. And tortured. Again, I'm not meant to say this. Not Canadian, not CBC, not Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Not the sort of thing we're supposed to feel, so we pretend that men and women in the army, police and fire service are given the same tests and have to fulfil the same requirements. Yet truth still breaks through.

We rightly condemn Islamic extremists in Afghanistan because they treat women so badly. Then we allow one of our own to give her life so that we can congratulate ourselves on how liberal and egalitarian we are, lie about how gender differences don't matter and then encourage our generals and politicians to obscure the truth on television about soldiers and causes.

What hypocrites we have become. Poor, poor Karine -- this is not the way it should have been.

You and your country deserved better.

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