Things are going really well in Afghanistan, aren't they? Yesterday 120 young school girls were poisoned. Apparently, the taliban tampered with their drinking water. Nice work. There we are, sending our young men and women into battle to lose their lives so we can overlay our societal values onto their primitive and misogynist culture...and for what!? So Canadian soldiers can die building schools for girls?
And let's not get into the unbridled corruption that continues among the clansmen who rule that country. You cannot have democracy within a tribal society, can't be done.
It's all very sad and useless, but Harper sent our troops in to show the Americans that Canada can hold its own internationally -- not because he had any notion that anything would change in Afghanistan. Harper is too intelligent to believe the West can make a difference there. Never has and never will. Oh sure, we gave a few villages some primitive stoves, dug a few wells and put up a few shacks, but seriously, what have we changed? No, Harper wanted the Americans to "owe us one" -- a marker he could call in when he needed something such as the Keystone pipeline approved, for example. Didn't work. Ugly American partisan politics made sure of that.
Now he is adamant Canada will play a support role and not be in that hell zone after 2014. I guess he can't really pull us out any earlier without looking like he had made a big mistake. Too long for me. Canada has expended too much treasure and blood already.
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