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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
so your all for negotiating and giving legitamacy to the Taliban, a group that denies basic rights to its people, segragates woman from society and denies them education, and the right to work. Executes people in number in a soccer stadium. Murders people that don't conform to thier twisted version of thier religion, destroys symbols of other religion.
Your all for going back on promises to assist a struggling nation, thats facing a internal enemy that thinks nothing of random bombings, and the use of suicide drivers who think that driving into a crowded market and killing scores of innocents is a path to paridise?
Is there an exit strategy in place? Thats up to the nations involved in this mission to decide, all we know at the moment is that there has been an extention to the Canadian mission in there, and if we can't or won't live up to our obligations, then we might as well withdrawl from all international policy because our word as Canadian's means nothing.
The day and age of peacekeeping by meek methods is over, peacekeeping has to be done by both a position of strength, and by being able to kill those like the Taliban in numbers to reduce thier ability to threaten and murder. The concept of soft diplomacy that Paul Martin talked about dosen't work, it emboldens.
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Thanks for the military lesson, Dwight.
Why should canada sacrifice the lives of their soldiers to mop up a mess created by another country, while trying to appease a puppet government that has shown a lack of leadership in any democratic avenue. They have RELIGIOUS POLICE there, again. This new 'democracy' in Afghanistan is a joke. I posted an article about this a couple of weeks ago here; meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Because of the neglect of our armed services, canada doesn't have the strategic ability to project force in that kind of way. Canada as it stands right now needs a large scale infusion of cash if we plan on 'winning' this war. Canada also needs some political leadership and support, which has been sorely lacking amongst all 5 major parties. not to mention, we need American help, but they are busy cleaning up spilled milk somewhere else.
So what we're supposed to do is sacrifice our soldiers to secure foreign resources for contracts that would be better served going to our own country to help our own workforce? Sure makes a lot of sense to me.
Contrary to popular belief, Taliban-styled militia's ('neo-taliban') are still the ruling majority in Afghanistan. Outside of a few urban pockets like Kabul, afghanistan is still a barren wasteland fought over by the Taliban and various poppy growing warlords.
Read about the rosey picture in afghanistan, and how much progress canada's little band of soldiers is a making:
http://www.democracynow.org/article..../04/01/1432231
or here about how much better-off women are:
http://www.azadiradio.org/en/dailyreport/2006/08/15.ASP
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...Cr=afghan&Cr1=
If canada is going to be involved with real, applicable democratic change in Afghanistan, then I'm all for it. If we're going to be the janitor who cleans up after American messes, then I say we should withdraw until such time as we are actually able to implement a real plan for security and democracy.