My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. But ALSO, I have a point/counterpoint column about the Tamil protests here. And on top of that, my first summer column for thecourt.ca is here, although it’s really just a longer, more serious-sounding rehash of the diversity arguments from last week.
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This is what the UN Peacekeeping force was made for. Go into Sri Lanka. Separate out the opposing sides. Find ambassadors from either end of the conflict that can come to the negotiating table without killing each other. And see that, in the meantime, aid continues to flow.
How long should the UN drag its feet before we get to see another Albanian Genocide? Or a new failed state to add on to the laundry list of failed states in the region?
It is horrifying to think that Canadians can hold a position in NATO and clout in the UN Security Council and yet continue to toss up their hands in a “What can we do about it?” attitude.
The Americans have been diving head first into conflicts – for better or worse – over the last fifty years. Canada can feign helplessness, but I don’t know if that fools anybody.
That thing about King Kong vs Godzilla having two endings is an urban legend. It was only ever intended to have one, which is the version shown in theaters.
Even if I think Godzilla should have won.
I can make you care about Grey’s Anatomy. Katherine Heigl, the most obnoxious piece of shit on Planet Earth, dies. In doing so giving the show back the only remotely interesting character (Alex Karev). But more importantly, Heigl DIES.
Sorry, but I don’t have the mad hate-on for Katherine Heigl that many people do.
I’m troubled… few years ago, if someone had told me I could see superman vs doomsday on prime time, i would’ve had a massive geek boner… now, I’m not even planning to see it
What have you done to me, Smallville?!?!
MGK, I’m not sure the world at large is ready for the “worse than a thousand Hitlers” rhetorical device.
Someone jot this down on the calender. I’m confused. Did you actually suggest that Canada try some American style Adventurism? That can’t be right. This is still the internet, isn’t it? 😉
The only thing I have to say at the moment is that I’m not happy by how all you have to do these days in order to make the more gullible segments of the population say “Oh, they’re bad guys!” is to call this group or that group “terrorists.”
The accuracy of the word in application to them doesn’t matter as much as what they do, and while I have to confess to being sort of ignorant about the activities of the LTTE, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that suicide bombing is only unforgiveable if the bomber is targeting civilians. We don’t condemn Japanese kamikazes the way we do suicide bombers, even though basically it’s the same tactic. If I learn more about what they have done then I may feel differently about them and truly believe there are no good guys or even “anti-heroes” (for lack of a better term) in this conflict, but it will take more than Matt Kim writing that they use suicide bombers, that they carry cyanide capsules (which IMO is pretty smart if you anticipate the possibility of getting captured and tortured), or that they reside in civilian areas.
More on the last one: if the Sri Lankan government chooses to bomb those areas instead of doing something more surgical, then the loss of civilian life is on the Sri Lankan government, not the Tamil Tigers. What is Kim saying here exactly? “Shame on you guys! You know that people are going to be dropping bombs on you and shooting at you non-stop, so you should stay away from everybody else forever so they don’t get killed by the people who are trying to kill you! If you go into a town and the town gets shot up or bombed, then it’s your fault.” No, it isn’t.