2 RCR to Afstan/Retribution?

The 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment from CFB Gagetown, N.B., will begin rotating to Kandahar. They will be replacing troops from The 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, from CFB Petawawa, Ontario. The rotation after that, in August, will send the Royal 22nd Regiment, CFB Valcartier, Quebec.

Meanwhile, MND O'Connor rather puts his foot in his mouth:

Canada fighting in Afghanistan in retribution for the 9/11 attacks: O’Connor

Such "biblical" language will only encourage those who believe that we should not be in Afstan since our mission there is part of some sort of illegitimate Western "crusade" against Muslims. The minister should have said simply that a major reason we are there is to prevent the re-establishment of a terrorist sanctuary--a sanctuary behind the 9/11 attack in which, amongst almost three thousand other civilians, 25 Canadians were murdered.