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Shots: 45-23 for Canada. Final score: 5-3 for USA.

Ouch. ‘Nuff said.

*Sigh*. Onto the qualifying game, and hopefully we’ll get a chance for revenge.

Update: Canada fared somewhat better at Hockey Night in Kandahar; the morale game for soldiers serving in Afghanistan resulted in a 16-2 “ass-whooping” of the US by Canada. Too bad that’s not the score that counts in the Olympics.

Terrorists blow up a mosque in Afghanistan to prevent people from registering to vote, and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) blames the United States:

Arguing that aid groups were now being specifically targeted, MSF issued a stinging rebuke to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, saying they used aid to help win a “hearts and minds” campaign and garner support from Afghans skeptical of their intentions.

“MSF denounces this attempt to co-opt humanitarian aid, to use humanitarian aid to win hearts and minds,” MSF secretary general Marine Buissonniere told a briefing, adding that in doing so it had endangered the lives of humanitarian workers.

In other words, MSF is mad at U.S. forces for treading on what they see as their turf.

Their argument – that the blurring of the line between traditionally-objective humanitarian work and non-objective military work has led to the targeting of humanitarian aid workers – is not without foundation. But the prevailing culture of some of these aid organizations is neutrality without a moral compass; in other words, they’re so conditioned to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses wherever they work, that they’ve bought into the US-is-evil rhetoric of most of those countries.

Do you think MSF has noticed that, in striving to be as apolitical as possible, it has actually become a darling of left-wing politicos and America-bashers everywhere?