Really bogged down?

Doug Saunders of the Globe and Mail reports an allegation that Canada's involvement in Afstan is as futile as the Battle of Passchendaele. What despicable journalism. Talk about fixing things for the agenda.

...Vimy offers the lesson that military sacrifice is worth it in the end. Passchendaele offers another, potentially relevant lesson: that military endeavours are enormously wasteful if they serve no greater end.

"I think that the lesson of Passchendaele is that when you enter a war, there have to be clear objectives - and in the heat of fighting, when you are losing many lives, it is very dangerous to lose sight of those objectives." Mr. Bostyn [curator of the Belgian-run Passchendaele museum] said. "It's a lesson that's being forgotten in Iraq and Afghanistan."..

In any event, the Allied and Associated Powers did win the First World War--after very short "negotiations" that led to a crushing armistice, and then a peace treaty which the Germans had no part in framing (whether that was a Good Thing is another matter, but Margaret MacMillan thinks Versailles was about the best that could be done at the time). You could look it up, Jack, instead of spouting this over-ripe tripe:

“Students of history will know that all major conflicts are resolved, ultimately, through peace-oriented discussions. . . . And that's what needs to happen here.”