No Mission Strip Tease from the CDS
The politicians prevaricate in their messaging on what Canada will in Afghanistan do after 2011.
Canada's top soldier, General Walt Natynczyk, states it plainly and clearly, via the National Post and Reuters - highlights depressingly mine:
Translation: unless we hear different from the politicians (different orders), the trunks are being packed, with no Canadian troops left in Afghanistan (apart from maybe some at the embassy) by the end of 2011.
More head shaking here.
Canada's top soldier, General Walt Natynczyk, states it plainly and clearly, via the National Post and Reuters - highlights depressingly mine:
“For the Canadian Forces to meet the direction of the government to be out of Kandahar by December 2011, we must begin our planning now …. It is the end of the presence of Canadian Forces in Kandahar province and it is the end of the military mission throughout Afghanistan …. If PRT remain it will still be a team of civilian officials.”He told the parliamentary committee he was speaking to that a planning team is already in Afghanistan. Something else he said:
“We live on fact and we live on orders.”
Translation: unless we hear different from the politicians (different orders), the trunks are being packed, with no Canadian troops left in Afghanistan (apart from maybe some at the embassy) by the end of 2011.
More head shaking here.
posted by milnews.ca at 7:43 p.m.
3 Comments:
Ah yes, taking it all off. Oops, out.
Mark
Ottawa
At least in the CDS's version of the dance, he TELLS you how it's going to end!
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 12/09/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
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