Canadian policy in Afstan is racist

Scott Taylor really goes low in a column dismissing the Manley panel report:

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The big recommendation from Manley was, of course, the shift from focusing on combat to the training the Afghan National Army (ANA)[actually already the policy - MC].

Once again, this is something the Canadian military has been promoting for months.

Unfortunately, this new report makes no real concrete suggestions towards the establishment of professional Afghan military cadres such as the medical, logistics, police, legal and engineering officers required to make the ANA a stand-alone force.

Instead, this report implies a stay-the-course extension of our instructors' churning out of Afghan infantry units. If we don't begin to create an educated, literate, professional Afghan army, NATO will never be able to disengage.

On Canada AM, I had expressed the opinion that this current program constituted essentially a racist policy to which John Manley came on the air laughing derisively. "How can it be racist to expect the Afghans to do the fighting?" he chortled. "It's their country."

RACIST

As I could not add further clarification at the time, I offer to do so now: To send Afghans into battle alongside our soldiers with a drastically reduced standard of training, weaponry, and protective equipment is racist. And that's not a laughing matter Mr. Manley.

The Manley report was a missed opportunity for Canada to change direction while continuing our commitment to the people of Afghanistan.

What a jerk.