The Peace Tower is framed in a metal fence on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Friday June 18, 2010. Parliament has begun its summer break after voting on several bills late Thursday.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
I see from Jane Taber's report that Liberals and Conservatives are sparring over Afghanistan again.
About the latest death of a Canadian soldier - the 148th? No way.
About whether the mission can succeed? Are you serious?
No, in Ottawa, it's business as usual today; namely, all politics all of the time.
"His lack of leadership is staggering," a senior Ignatieff official said this morning [about Peter MacKay's latest statement on Canada's post-2011 role.] "Talk about having nothing to say! Is it because the chief ventriloquist is too busy putting a spin on his disastrous G8/G20 management or is it because the Defence Minister really is a dummy?"
Meanwhile, according to a report in the Guardian, Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan has resigned.
The Washington Post reported this morning that the U.S. has been paying Afghan warlords to provide security.
And, in what is likely to go down as the war's Douglas MacArthur moment, President Obama has " Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan to Washington on Tuesday after a magazine article portrayed the general and his staff as openly contemptuous of some senior members of the Obama administration."