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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I think everyone understands the only narrative there is, lots just aren't happy about it.
He is a traitor at minimum, and a terrorist at worst - none of which matters when it comes to his country protecting his rights.
That about right?
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I could understand people simply not being happy about the way the situation played itself out. I disagree however that most understand the reasoning behind the settlement. Too many people keep going back to the "he should have thought about the consequences before he became a terrorist" argument. Or they ignore any of the facts about his age and whether or not he really had a choice in where he ended up. This part is frustrating to me because it seems to demonstrate a lack of basic human decency. I mean if some sick and twisted parent has their kid selling drugs or pimps out their child from a young age and that child is arrested at 15 in a sting operation would these same people be calling the children in these cases whores and drug dealers the same way they are calling Khadr a terrorist?
It's frustrating anyway you look at it, except I don't think the frustration should be aimed at Khadr, we didn't go through what he went through and we don't know all the details surrounding what happened in Afghanistan or in his life leading up to that point, maybe he's playing everyone for a fool, who knows? There's no sense getting all bent out of shape over something that we can't be certain of. Same with the people blasting Trudeau, should he have fought it? Maybe. Should he have not? Maybe. All I know is he is probably in a much better position to make that call than anyone complaining about it.
My frustration is with the way the government treated Khadr, and with the reactions of political opponents. Conservative and Liberal governments of the past screwed up, and a Canadian citizen was wronged, that much we know. Instead of looking at who to blame for the fall out, both parties should be looking at what's best for Canadians, which would be answering the question of how can we best prevent something like this from happening again. Instead the liberals are in damage control and the conservatives are busy trying to get that money to an American war widow. Neither of which is helping Canadians. All the while canadians are losing it over a bunch of money instead of also looking at how did this happen and how can we make sure our government isn't able to do something like this again to anyone. Like it or hate it, we maintain the rights we have by people holding the government accountable.