Canada's army is at least 3,000 soldiers short of meeting the nation's military commitments in Afghanistan and needs a serious boost in manpower, a commander in the Canadian Forces says.
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Im curious, what makes this one worse than Korea, WWII, WWI, the Boer war..
Or really ANY war we've been in? I mean, it would be one thing if you said all war is evil, but what makes this such an evil war over the other ones?
Why are they there again ?
Because we sat in NATO for all those years. When the piper comes a calling its time to pay up. If we don't think she should have to honour this agreement, we should have left before we were called upon...
Common descency that you don't bomb a country to crap then run away and leave them in anarchy and misery is why we are still there
NATO is why we went in.
Common descency that you don't bomb a country to crap then run away and leave them in anarchy and misery is why we are still there.
I mean we could, but then they would come after us soon enough. And I wouldn't blame them. If you bombed my house, all the power stations and water pumps around..I'd probably go after you myself.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
OH okay, I thought it was so that women could go to school and to defend our country, I must have missed Afghan mission V4.1 when it came out
Because we sat in NATO for all those years. When the piper comes a calling its time to pay up. If we don't think she should have to honour this agreement, we should have left before we were called upon.
We are likewise part of NORAD, If we don't want to risk being drawn into a conflict there we should leave now, not when we are called upon. You can't sit in a defensive alliance demanding they protect you should you be attacked, then leave when someone else is attacked and its your turn to help defend them (whether or not they need your help, this isn't a charity, they defend you and you defend them)