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Originally Posted by evman150
This is so wrong.
These soldiers are not "laying their lives on the line" for me or you. They are laying them on the line for dick **** all. This is not WWI or WWII. Comparing it to those conflicts is an insult to the people who fought in those wars.
These poor souls are risking their lives for a cause that doesn't exist.
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Your right this isn't WWI or WWII or Korea.
WWI was a wasted war. that was bought into play, not as a defense for democracy or human right, but with the concept of imperialism, secret alliances, and the noble concept that war in some twisted measure was fun.
WWII was a war against evil, plain and simple, unfortunately in a lot of ways the allies sided with evil by working with Stalin. But Hitler and his territorial aspirations, and his murderous intents had to stop.
Korea was a battle between east in west in its purest sense, sparked by a lunatic.
Those wars were different, especially the second world war. then Afghanistan.
So what are the Canadian Troops fighting for.
1) To stop a regime that regularly supported terrorism, allowing it to grow and train and thrive like a malignant virus. The Taliban built camps, helped funnel finances, and sheltered Osama Bin Laden.
2) To stop a incredibly oppressive government where they executed people en masse in hideous fashion, forced woman to wear burka's and killed them for the most minor of crimes. Outlawed education to more then half of its population, stopped and then restarted the growth of poppies for the world wide drug trade.
3) Deposed a government that got its jollies by hanging people in a soccer stadium or pushing them off of a high diving board into a empty pool. This government believed in stoning, and when that didn't work, pulling walls down on its victims.
3) The Canadian troops are trying to create bubbles where girls can go to school, reconstruction is allowed to go un attacked. People have some say in thier government.
4) Our troops are trying to prevent a loss of life there by bringing in medical treatments, the restoration of electricity, and potable water.
Your right, in this war they're not fighting for our rights and freedoms and a better way of life over here, but they are over there. And to me, thats worth fighting for.