There is not a single piece of evidence that they are killing the talibans, this what make me laugh about credible people like you are.
Those who are fighting against chicken-canadian-troops, could be the afgan, who knows?certainly not you or your source.
It doesn't matter that they're Taliban or not....
We know that the poppy fields are a source of income and present a conjoint interest to the drug lords and the terrorists in Afghanistan, but what do our good American friends do about it?....
The United States dropped thousands of gallons (tons) of defoliant on South East Asia to deny Charlie ground cover....but a few thousand acres of poppy fields that are supporting tribal/drug-trade/terrorism represents too much high-order thought for America...?
The point is that so long as there's a sculpted piece of video that demonstrates that Canada and Canadian troops are playing by the American rule book....everyone (that means the Whitehouse and defense contracting machinery) is happy happy....
If you come to my ****ry with your ideas about "democracy" and I look at how that "democracy" works in your nation.... then you say you're going to wage war on me and kill the nasty evil people...whom you couldn't find or fight for years now.... and I'm expected to quiely lay down and set aside my reservations about being told by a bully with a gun what I should believe and what I should think and told about how I should run my life....guess what....I'll kill ya back....
When you send young men and women to kill other folk in their homes, it shouldn't suprise anyone that folk who had no use for and didn't entertain killing anyone eventually join the Taliban or the warlords or the drug cartels in fighting....
If Canada and the United States really don't want something more than an opportunity to reap enormous profits (defense industry and cozy-trade-deals-among "friends", they'd either do something right or get the hell out....
But hey the Sephen Harpers and the George Bushs of the world are more than prepared to write a check on your children's futures.....
This isn't WW I, II or even the Cold War, we're not fighting a conventional force. For every local fighter we kill we create enemies out of every relative they have.
The US and ARVN killed close to 1,000,000 VC/NVA in Vietnam and still lost. The Soviets bombed the crap out of Afghanistan and drove millions of people out of the country and still lost. All we're doing is creating more resistance and more of our people are going to die in IED attacks and ambushes while idiots cheer like it's a hockey game.
Cobalt_Kid said:The Karzai government itself is coming to the realization that there needs to be a political settlement to the conflict, maybe it's time we caught up.