I've searched the Globe & Mail and only find a couple of news articles. (I've tried searching for "afghan journalist death sentence" as well as alternate spellings of Kambakhsh.) I don't find Christie Blatchford, Defender of the Troops, weighing in on this, or Margaret Wente, Scourge of the Saracens (and of Polar Bears etc. but that's not pertinent.) Or for that matter Rick Salutin, who in his Friday column makes some sharp observations on Hillary Clinton's pantsuits.
Much the same in the Star, and the National Post. Maybe the commentary is just well hidden.
And yet it would seem to be very relevant to "our mission" in Afghanistan.
After all, a casual reader might get the impression that Canadian troops are fighting and dying to defend an Islamic Republic against Islamic insurgents. And wonder why they couldn't be left to sort things out between themselves, if they were more or less agreed on the outcome.
Of course, this would be a misconception, and I'm sure our punditry have chosen to ignore this case as it would unnecessarily confuse the Canadian people. Our prime minister has complained that we don't get what's at stake. And we might not get it even worse.
(It's quite possible I am missing something. Maybe there are fierce arguments raging through the mediasphere even as I type this. It's just I haven't noticed. I need to get hit in the head, like this. Good news, the Afghan Senate has withdrawn their support for the death sentence! Checks and balances! The system works!)
Update: No relevant questions in Hansard as far as I can tell. What do we pay these people for?
