Poor Nazanin MacKay. The wife of Canadian Defense Minister Peter "Pinocchio" Mackay made it onto the front page of today's Globe and Mail.
Why?
Because a couple of days ago she had the audacity to tell an interviewer that she believed that Omar Khadar should be repatriated. Since the Harper gang has done everything imaginable to avoid bringing the former child soldier home, this opinion was apparently not met favorably at the dinner table in the MacKay home that night.
So now poor Nazanin is busy setting the record straight. She was "baited." Her views were "distorted." The interviewer was "duplicitous."
After being set straight by whoever, she now believes that Khadar's fate should rest in the hands of the government, who, after all, have all the "facts and details".
The only relevant detail is that he was 15 at the time of his alleged crime, and that fact makes him a child soldier. In her spare time Mrs. MacKay likes to fancy herself an advocate for children's rights. This was a perfect opportunity for her to make an important statement.
For about 24 hours she had it right.
How sad to see she allowed herself to be pressured away from this issue.
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