Reading More Tea Leaves about Canada's Future in Afghanistan
Am I reading too much into this?
Nice Flickr photos of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif
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March 13, 2008 Parliamentary Resolution calling for withdrawn from Kandahar (not Afghanistan) by 2011
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Maybe Canada isn't leaving Afghanistan in 2011?
The Canada-Afghanistan Blog would like to see a continued presence, with Mark pointing out there have been breaks in Canada's military presence in Afghanistan.
Just askin'
Nice Flickr photos of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif
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March 13, 2008 Parliamentary Resolution calling for withdrawn from Kandahar (not Afghanistan) by 2011
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Maybe Canada isn't leaving Afghanistan in 2011?
The Canada-Afghanistan Blog would like to see a continued presence, with Mark pointing out there have been breaks in Canada's military presence in Afghanistan.
Just askin'
posted by milnews.ca at 8:30 p.m.
4 Comments:
It will come down to Canadian electoral politics, not a principled or even rational calculation of Canada's national interest in the true sense. Sigh.
Mark
Ottawa
speaking as somebody who supports the mission in Kandahar, if we can't be in Kandahar, I'd rather be all the way out and rest and reconstitute the CF back in Canada until we're back to 'normal' in terms of recruitment, training, equipment, promotion boards, etc., rather than hang on in some non-combat way in Kabul. Of course other assistance and a diplomatic presence will obviously remain and can form the core of the mission to Afghanistan even if the CF are not there.
As the PM said, the mission as we know, will end.
Mark - So young to be so jaded.... ;)
Sadly, I believe you got it in one - why else would the resolution wording have left such wiggle room? Especially with a minority gov't?
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