I'm not talking cut-and-run, but an orderly withdrawal. We shouldn't have gone there in the first place. Anybody with any idea of the history of that country would realize that. Just ask the Russians. Just ask the British. Just ask any would-be conqueror or ruler over the past number of centuries.
The idea is that we are there to bring democracy and freedom to the Afghan people and fight terrorism. That's risible. There never has been democracy there and never will be. We have to give up this stupid notion that we can somehow instill in backward Third World countries some idea of democracy and individual rights.
We need to accept the fact that some countries will remain poor, backward and corrupt and we have to give up this white man's guilt complex that suggests it's all our fault.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the American and other NATO troops, including ours, are holed up in Kabul and Kandahar, where the Yanks have established a puppet government (much like the Russians before them). The countryside is still in the full control of the tribal warlords (who run the heroin trade feeding junkies in the western democracies with the full knowledge of the U.S.) and Taliban lunatics. We'd require a million-man army and strategic nukes to weed them out.
Bin Laden? He's believed to be in Pakistan, one of our supposed allies in the war on terror.
Let's get our forces and resources back here to Canada where we really need them and work towards rooting out the homegrown Islamist terrorists in addition to securing our own borders. This is where the terrorists are. The guys with the Canadian passports (thank you multiculturalism!) who live in middle class homes in Scarborough and Brampton and Mississauga and North York and Vaughan.
We can't keep sacrificing Canadian soldiers for a lost cause. We have to start taking care of our own. Afghanistan can go to hell for all I care.
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