ABSTRACT
Shortly after 9/11, the Government of Canada secretly deployed soldiers from Joint Task Force 2—an elite special operations unit of the Canadian Forces (CF)—to Afghanistan to support the US-led "war on terror". This chapter suggests that Judith Butler's understanding of framing and the differential rendering of some lives as both apprehensible and precarious can be usefully deployed in making sense of a series of events regarding Canada's military engagement in Afghanistan and their intersections with sport. Notably, it draws on her work to examine the Canadian government's framing of its prisoner-transfer agreement with Afghanistan and the concomitant issue of Afghan detainees' torture by Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS). The 2010 Games and Canada's Olympic Truce (OT) resolution for the Olympiad were both heavily politicized and militarized, with the Games being the largest security operation in Canadian history, while also being characterized by a wide range of democratic deficits.
