How to wiggle our Afghan problem

Bruce Rolston at Flit, in a very good politico-military analysis, comes up with a solution to our Afghan problem that might be saleable by the government: keep most of our troops at Kandahar, with the Marines taking on the infantry combat role, coupled with a Canadian withdrawal that...

...would be effectively limited in the immediate term to as little as the two companies of Canadian infantry, plus some of their logistical tail, and the battlegroup headquarters...

Mr Rolston also notes the average age of Canadian fatalities in Afghanistan is twenty-nine. Hardly the "kids" many would have you believe.