So,the detestable, anti-Canadian sociopath and the elitist prick both think that its a good idea to waste our resources training insurgents and rapists for another three years in Afghanistan. This as the current supreme leader behind this whole travesty, Barack Obama, has decided that the whole thing is a quagmire that he's going to allow to drag-on for a couple more years while he dithers trying to find some marketable excuse to justify leaving.
Canadians are unenthusiastic about this, and I imagine that a majority, when pressed, would find the cavalier way that harper commits the Canadian Forces for a multi-year exercise in futility a tad disturbing as well. Obviously, some of us are absolutely disgusted with the idea of this abomination being dragged out for still more years of wasted treasure and blood.
But our elites don't give a shit about us. The flimsiest pretexts can be used to abuse any of us and they're aware that so long as the majority of Canadians are left alone, they'll acquiesce to anything. So marching in the thousands in the streets isn't going to convince harper and Ignatieff not to do this. Letters to the editor aren't going to stop them. What will? What is justified?
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Politicians do take note of the electorate when it senses more widespread interest or anger (such as the period of time briefly after the second prorogation). The problem has always been trying to maintain the interest/anger.
Like you said, as long as the majority of Canadians are unaffected, many issues will eventually slide. If you press them for a response, they'll mostly say they'd prefer that Canadian troops return home, but I would guess that the intensity of their opposition would generally be minimal.
In the end, it comes down to a media "war", trying to get people actively concerned about the issues at hand (i.e. they'll read, research the facts, etc.). Protests are great for gathering more attention to obscure issues (such as expulsions of American war resisters, etc.). Well-known issues like the war in Afghanistan really require people to dig deeper themselves since many of them probably have opinions already (informed or not), and that requires people to have an interest.
As for solutions, uh... more "ads" by anti-war organizations in web browsers to raise concern? (It's not much of an idea, but better to start brainstorming now, I suppose.)
I think ads would be a great idea. See if the mainstream media would carry the!
Because the mainstream media (eggzamples: John Ibbitson, Rosie DiManno, Christie Blatchford) tend to distort reality and downplay the abomination that has been our "mission" in Afghanistan.
If Canadians heard as much about the torture, corruption, rape, misogyny, of the Karzai government and the brutality of the occupation (we have mercenaries on hunting missions in the countryside for gods' sake!) they'd turn against this travesty in droves.
But instead, there's heart-warming visists with the troops, somber eulogies for fallen heroes, bland details of disagreements betwixt Karzai and Obama, and the torture inquiries deliberately shunted off to a closed committee room somewhere.
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