Mr. Wile E. Coyote Ignatieff

Ham-Handed:

Michael Ignatieff has proven to be the Wile E. Coyote of political strategy when it comes to boxing in Stephen Harper – forever being burnt to a crisp atop his own pile of Acme Corporation dynamite.

The latest example of this tendency is the Prime Minister’s admission that Canada will keep troops in Afghanistan to train Afghan forces after the military mission ends next year — a statement completely at odds with what he said in an interview with me in January, when he asserted we would only keep a handful of troops guarding the embassy in Kabul.