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Originally Posted by icarus
We are there at the invitation of the democratically-elected government of Afghanistan to help bring stability and peace to a country that hasn't exactly been a happy place for the last thirty years. Once this big cell of Taliban in the south has been finally rooted out--and this Operation Medusa will be important for that--then the Afghan military and police forces will be sufficient to take care things and everyone else can go home.
Claiming that the only real result is dead Canadians is ignorant of the facts. We aren't there spinning our wheels; appreciable progress is being made.
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I didn't think NATO occupation of Afghanistan was a mistake at first, but now I am really starting to wonder what we are doing there. The Soviets couldn't beat the insurgency, so I don't see this half-assed attempt working either. Afghanistan has never been successfully invaded and occupied.
Even though the Canadian military claims that today was a success and progress was made, citing around 200 insurgent kills to our 4 losses, it is worth noting that the Soviets killed around 1,000 insurgents for every Russian killed and after 9 years, they were still forced out.
There are far too few troops involved in this occupation for it to ever be successful. There are just too many places for them to hide. Perhaps if the U.S. dedicated themselves to Afghanistan like they did to Iraq, but even then I doubt it would matter.