"They've made the right decision..."

I can't believe not a one of us here at The Torch made note yet of the most important story of the Kandahar deployment:

After weeks of lobbying by the military, the chain agreed to set up a coffee shop to serve soldiers in Kandahar, said Ron Joyce, who co-founded the famous chain in Hamilton in 1964 with NHL player Tim Horton.
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Joyce said Tim Hortons executives told him about the move last week, when he made inquiries after getting a call from Canada's top soldier Gen. Rick Hillier about the idea.

A good officer takes care of his troops. And notice Hillier didn't just call Timmy's Head Office, he called the founder of the company. Centres of influence, red tape be damned, just get it done, etc.

A few random questions come to mind:

• I wonder if we'll see empty brown paper cups blowing along the side of highways in and out of Kandahar? My guess is that discipline will prevail, and that the answer will be no, but there's always one numpty...


• I wonder if any of the other nations in camp will get hooked on double-doubles and Roll Up The Rim To Win contests?


• I wonder how long it will be before we see a Tim Horton's tear-jerker patriotic TV commercial out of Afghanistan? What, you know it's going to happen eventually.

Good on Hillier, good on Timmy's. BZ all around.