RUMINT
I've heard rumblings that Mitch Potter is in fact onto something with this report:
At this point, they remain nothing more than rumblings, and they could well prove wrong. Scuttlebut is not a firm commitment. But would anyone have a problem if these guys showed up one day at KAF?
As NATO builds momentum toward a "renewal of vows" for Afghanistan, Canada and France yesterday revealed their foreign ministers will embark on a joint mission to Kabul next month in a move that could presage the announcement of badly needed reinforcements for Kandahar province.
At this point, they remain nothing more than rumblings, and they could well prove wrong. Scuttlebut is not a firm commitment. But would anyone have a problem if these guys showed up one day at KAF?
posted by Babbling Brooks at 11:18 a.m.
3 Comments:
Babbling: Canadian progressives would be horrified at the prospect of our soldiers serving alongside mercenaries.
It's my impression that the Legion is mostly used for fairly short interventions in Africa--it would seem less likely that it would be used for a sustained combat mission in Afstan. Here is a unit that has been mentioned.
Mark
Ottawa
You could well be right, Mark. As the title of the post suggests, this is RUMINT.
But I didn't make it up out of thin air.
Canadian, American and EUropean "progressives" (are you like me in resenting the West's left-wing crypto-fascists kidnapping the word "progressive", which used to have an honorable meaning?) will find reaons to get their balls in an uproar about any Western military action in Af-stan or Iraq, totally regardless of the set of facts.
They're just dead set against Western Forces fighting in Af-stan, Iraq or anywhere else making any kind of military resistance to Islamofascism, period. Only they don't have the intellectual and moral honesty to admit that they're pacificts with a heavy strain of anti-Western self-loathing.
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