Steve to Alison: "So?"

Smarty-pants DFH blogger.

So she’s figured out how it all comes together, my diplomatic fake with NATO, my political fake with Canadians, when I knew all the time where those thousand troops were coming from. So? So anyone else who read the papers last fall (well, some of the papers) could have figured it out too, and so Alison did. So?

So now she’s figured out my latest fake, my decision only last week to cut the Military Police Complaints Commission off at the pass. So that was done so late and so clumsily that everyone else in the media should have been tipped off. So what? Most of them weren’t, which you can tell right away from the gloopy rhetoric of CBC’s report on my latest moves.

So Alison has put Canadian concerns about the humane and decent treatment of Afghan detainees together with what the CBC calls the "new, more side-by-side relationship between American and Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan" (translation: together with closer ties to the torture regime of a man who just confessed openly that he has no problems with torture because he has legal memos that have “enabled” him to do that, and who has been running since 2001 a torture base at Bagram, as Alison notes). So?

So Alison doesn’t want to live in Cheneyworld, and doesn’t want to see the Canadian forces or indeed the Canadian people defiled that way either. So? So what, Alison? I’ve already got us a good distance of the way there.

skdadl’s confession: No, Steve hasn’t actually written such a memo to Alison. So?