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Originally Posted by JMan
Is that how we keep the peace, with our soldiers getting killed  |
I don't understand this comment. Unlike the vast majority of our missions, we are not there to "keep the peace". We're there to assist with rebuilding and protecting the country that we helped "liberate".
This isn't going to be a popular opinion, but now that many years have passed since 9/11, I view the invasion of Afghanistan a lot differently then I did back then. Back then I was quite happy that we supported the US in going in after Bin Ladin and throwing out the Taliban. But in hindsite, it was the heat of the moment and although the Taliban weren't exactly choir boys, their repression etc. isn't much different than a hell of a lot of our "friends" in that area of the world.... We supported the US completely in invading a nation and overthrowing it's government. So as far as I'm concerned, we broke it, we own it and we need to stay and help fix it... as long as Iraq is the primary focus for most everyone else, I think we all have a chance of rebuilding Afghanistan and should stay there and see it thru. Yes the costs are high, but I'm proud of what our military is doing and I'm especially proud of all the "behind the scenes" stuff Canada is doing. We are more key to the rebuilding of that country than most people know about.
I am SO fucking glad we didn't support the US in Iraq.. If Harper or ANY Canadian official ever want to try and support the US in Iraq, I swear I would be yelling very loud for them to be thrown out. But we were a part of what's happened in Afghanistan and need to take responsibility for it.