Straight from Lebanon

So I read this morning in the news about some of our MPs and their fact-finding mission to Lebanon. Of course there was the usual and expected condemnation of war and those who allegedly support said wars. What shocked me most was the call by some to remove Hezbollah from Canada's list of terrorist groups.

The logic behind this, if you can call it that, is that by changing our designation of Hezbollah we can better position Canada to negotiatiate and work for peace. Wow. To me, that's kind of like someone in the medical community saying that we can better treat diseases like cancer if we just say they're not deadly. I can see it now. "Yes, Mr. Patterson, you have lung cancer. But we'll just call it the common cold so that we can all sleep a little easier at night." Brilliant, simply brilliant.

What makes this all the more interesting is finding that after eyebrows had been raised across the country, we have a denial that no such things were said. Misunderstanding or not, the very fact that there seems to be significant effort on the part of the Liberals to distance themselves from the very suggestion is enough for me to play the ol' BS card.

The problem for folks in the LPoC and the NDP is that they're trying far too hard to play both sides of the issue. When you can't even take a prinicipled stand without worrying about what others might think about you, you lose credibility. As unpopular as the decision has been, you have to give credit to Mr. Harper for taking a side and sticking with it, a move that is extremelely difficult, and nearly impossible, for anyone in politics to do.

Here's hoping that our three, wise fact-finders don't turn out anymore intellectual nuggets. Ideas like that, and especially the dumb ones, have a tendency to become a little contagious.