Things that make you go 'hm'...

Is it just me, or is there something contradictory about how Jack Layton wants Canada to have troops in Lebanon, but wants our troops out of Afghanistan? The way that our troops have been labelled 'terrorists' by the NDP (now since retracted)? The way that our soldiers fight to defend something that they believe in, yet we want to suppress their valour and bravery? That Canadians get all hyper that five of our guys die, but hardly bat an eyelash when hundreds of 'them' do? I find it very strange, that even with the all the discussion, all the rhetoric, even all the warnings from Romeo Dallaire, we, the elite who can comfortably sit at home and criticize, without even having all the facts, can simply make sweeping statements about who and who should not die. Which mainly draws the lines around 'we' should not die, and 'they' can simply go f*#^ themselves...