As Talibans military advances into Afghanistan cause widespread alarm, a prominent Canadian diplomat-turned-politician with deep knowledge of the Afghanistan scene has spoken up on Pakistans proxy war, enough to anger Islamabad. After 20 years of hard effort,
he was one stubborn old coot. and, actually, that stubbornness might explain why he got so many things done as the speakers have talked about today. just one memory of mine i can remember back when dad was practicing law this was post- cabinet representing uranium miners and down-winders who died from their exposure to radiation. people thought it was a hopeless case. believe me, many people told him that he should move on to other things. it ended up being a 30-year-plus battle, but he never gave up. the cases went all the way up to the supreme court. the court said these cases cried out for redress. after it was done in the courts, he recruited ted kennedy and orrin hatch and persuaded congress to give justice to the people that deserve it the navajo miners and the down- winders. of all the things my father accomplished that you heard it talked about today by historians and others and family members, i believe he felt his best years were his eight years at interior.