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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Personally, I believed we should be there.
We were part of a unified effort to root out a regime that was harbouring and aiding individuals who were actively performing terrorist acts around the globe. And when pushed to prevent those individuals from performing those acts, that regime steadfastly refused.
The leading nations of the world then looked a the situation as it stood and decided it was untenable to leave it like that, and with a firm international agreement took action.
I support all that. I supported the Liberals for sending them, I support the CPC for keeping them there and giving them the financial and equipment support thay had been lacking.
My biggest issue in the ongoing effort was that the US removed and diverted troops to the Iraq conflict. So instead of rooting out the source of the 9/11 attacks, the Afghanistan war has turned into a long drawn out affair.
I still support us being there. I think to pull out too soon would leave a power vacuum that would be quickly filled by the exact people we went to remove. But I do wish there was more support. Perhaps a surge similar to what was done in Iraq would push the Taliban insurgents underground long enough to establish a credible Afghani force to stand up for themselves and allow for whatever progress the afghan people as a whole want, as opposed to what the rest of the world or some Taliban fundamentalists want.
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if the rest of our partner nations would actually lend some troops that actually get into the line of fire, that would help, too.
Perhaps some of our more militarily inclined members can comment, I recall something about the European nations all being stationed in the stable parts of the country, leaving the US and Canada to handle the tough parts.