The Associated Press must be reading the Globe and Mail
These excerpts from an otherwise informative story ("Canadian Troops Work on Afghan Road") remind me of this sort of thing.
Globe latest, actually not bad.
The ground that hundreds of war-weary Canadians [emphasis added] are holding was the site of NATO's biggest ground offensive in its history, Operation Medusa, which killed hundreds of militants and dozens of civilians earlier this year. It also forced thousands of Afghans to flee their homes...Those last two para don't smell right to me.
When Cpl. Cameron Hunt, a 23-year-old from Cambridge, Ontario, heard that he would be deployed to Afghanistan, he expected it to be a peacekeeping tour [emphasis added].
"Then we get here and it is all war," he said.
Globe latest, actually not bad.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 4:37 p.m.
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You know, the statement about Kosovo using up 40,000 troops ... while the same area with a more hostile opostion is being policed by our meger contingent, realy scares me.
Michael Yon, who is in touch with Special Forces in Afghanistan, says that by the end of this coming summer, Canadian forces likely won't even be able to leave Kandahar. He claims that the 2 billion bucks from the poppy harvest, and the Pakistani ISI, will be sure to give our guys a Taliban force they can't handle. Just wait until the fly-by-wire anti-tank shit arrives.
How can you fight this war when you have two neighbours providing safe haven and support? I predict (and I hate to), than we can't win this one unless Pakistan and Iran come on-side... completely; or failing that, we make them.
I won't utter the V word yet... but the fact that France and Germany and England, the three big boys of Europe, won't give this fight their all, is really spooky. Blair refuses to give in to UK commanders who are asking for armour, more troops, and more support. What the hell is going on?
I gotta tell you, reading between the lines of all the good pieces, like this Globe one, should make any person familiar with military matters nervous. Afghanistan is about the size of Iraq with about the same size population ... but most of it rural ... and it is more extreme in it's Islam.
Talk about a tinderbox.
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