Afghanistan asks Canada to extend its military mission

Yup Afghans will die, Canadians have also been dying, and we are quite sick of it. Canada has put our time into that hornets nest, and they havent gotten their shit together. Have fun playing with the Americans and Chinese.

They've been fighting since before Alexander the Great arrived in the region. We can only hope that the lesser evils have the bigger guns and things evolve from there.

My only hope for Afghanistan is that we will never have to deal with that Dutch Oven of a hell hole again.

I was listening to General Romeo Dallaire yesterday at the radio who is against a withdraw of the forces. He had several good points. One is that we have done our offensive mission and now it's time to another country to take the relay. Another is that we are in Cyprus since 45 years. That those things cannot be left after 8 years. That it takes time to help them build a working government with ministers and all the knowledge to run a country.

He also said that most of Afghanistan is secured now. We always hear bad news because we are the area of Kandahar, the south-east province where most of the combat is done. Leaving now in the middle of a mission would mean that we lost 8 years there for nothing.

Maybe we should stay there but with a more "humanitarian" mission. It takes time to rebuild a country.

You can't release the clamp till the glue has hardened.

Frankly they have rare earth mineral reserves, we should stick around till the bill gets paid.

Sorry no thank you. Clean up your own IEDs.

No no and no, The United States created this problem by having their adventure in Iraq, I have no desire to see another "Cyprus" in Afghanistan for the next 40 years. Remember that in Cyprus it was Greece and Turkey , two ostensible NATO Allies in Cyprus and it still took almost 5 decades to get the to the point where they could agree on something.

Sure we should extend our military mission. just so we can protect Karzai while he makes deals for the mineral wealth of Afghanistan with nations that have done fuck all to keep the place from turning into Taliban central.

I don't think so you ungrateful assholes.

The occupation of Afghanistan came before the occupation of Iraq.

The occupation of Afghanistan came before the occupation of Iraq.

I didn't say it wasn't, the issue though is that the troops, supplies, and political capital were wasted on Iraq, which had no WMD's and no alliance with Al Queda. Or to put it more bluntly if the Bush administration had done something other than not deiced to go after Saddam because of Oil and revenge we might be in a much better place in Afghanistan. Because the forces that went to Iraq would have been where they were supposed to be, Afghanistan

Well he needed someone to go after and it wasn't like they could go after the Saudi spiders who are the real web spinners.

What's this, a meeting of the BQ and PQ?

Let someone else pick up where our people have left off. We've been there 10 years now and we've done our job and taken our lumps. Afghanistan is a lost cause and the sooner we get out the better.