Harper risks denigrating our soldiers

He is. If you aren't familiar with Harper's tactics on the Afghanistan detainee torture scandal read Impolitical, then Greg Weston and then come back.

Back?

Harper figures if he can negatively frame the opposition's efforts to uncover the truth as an attack on our soldiers, one of two things will hopefully (for him) happen:

1. Sufficient evidence will not "surface" and the matter will collapse, and his charge of "traitors" will stick on the opposition.

2. The Opposition will retreat out of fear of being branded as traitors, and Harper will get out of trouble.

However, if the matter continues forward, and Harper keeps up his fallacious straw man rhetoric that the opposition is blaming our soldiers for torture, then Canadians may come to believe that the soldiers on the ground are to blame, regardless of what is really found out, because of Harper's self-serving false narrative.

Harper is not constrained by decency. When his back is in a corner, he acts like a wounded animal, and will crash and burn institutions if he has too. That's his proven instinct.

It is important that the opposition gets to the bottom of this.

We need an inquiry with a broad mandate. The sooner, the better, because our soldiers deserve Harper's fog  cleared.