Random Ruminations of My Mind

By now I’m sure most of you have heard or read about President Pervez Musharraf’s recent visit to New York City for the UN general assembly as well as to promote his new book, “In the Line of Fire”. And its also likely that you’ve heard about what he had to say on a CBC interview (read transcript here) regarding Canada’s role in Afghanistan and the war on terror. If you haven’t, allow me to give you a summary.

Basically, Musharraf said in the interview that Canadians shouldn’t be “crying and shout all around the place that there are coffins” over losing a few soldiers because when they put on that uniform, they should expect casualties as a repercussion of war. I really don’t see what the big hooplah is with what he said because it certainly makes sense to me. I mean, when the CBC has headlines like “Musharraf downplays Canadian contribution”, I don’t quite think that’s what he was trying to do. Instead, I just think he was trying to say that his country, Pakistan, is not making it harder for Canadians for the point of doing so, but is doing all it can for itself and apparently has lost 500 soldiers in the process. Sure, he may not have said it very tactfully, but this guy is a General, the chief of staff of the armed forces, and there ain’t no sugar coating where he comes from.

As an aside, check out this post (link) on a blog I found on the net. Its so funny, you’re going to roll on the floor laughing. There’s a bunch of anti-musharraf protesters taking part in a rally in NYC. Watch the video, and listen to what the lone pro-musharraf guy has to say to them. Absolutely hilarious! And then read the email correspondence between the blogger, Ali Eteraz, and the organizers of the rally. Funny stuff.

man, i can’t stand it when he does that salute… its like how queen elizabeth has her little wave, hitler had his whatever you call it… saddam even has… err, had his own way of saluting the crowd… anyway, funny interview, check it out…