Telling Pakistan to fence off its border with Afghanistan is almost funny - if it wasn't so pathetically stupid.
Apparently Mr. MacKay never got the memo about border fences as metaphor rather than reality. (Is anybody else thinking of how wonderfully ineffective the fence the US has been building along the Mexican border is?)
When this statement was made, I'm sure that Minister Kasuri was trying very hard to keep a straight face:
Kasuri welcomed Canada's offer of help to devise of system of border security that would avoid laying minefields.
Because, as is correctly pointed out:
Afghanistan opposes fencing and mining as the frontier is disputed and it argues that such steps would penalize tribal communities that straddle both sides of the border.
In other words, it's not really a border, is it. In fact, I'd put very good odds that most of the people living there view the "border" as something of a bad joke, and would be all to happy to subvert, undermine and sabotage any fence building exercise in their vicinity.
Next up, Peter MacKay ends the war in Afghanistan by declaring peace in a speech.
2 comments:
"Is MacKay really this stupid?"
Yup!
MacKay :
"Fencing, I think, is part of that solution, particularly in high traffic areas, and there have been experiences with fencing that have been very effective."
What, you mean like this one?
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