and 4 more...
"The exit strategy is success," Canadian Prime Minister Harper said. "There will be no other conditions under which this government leaves Afghanistan. We will succeed in our security mission and we will see that country moving in irreversible progress to being an economically prosperous and peaceful society. That is the only way this government will leave."
"We’ve said all along that we’re there to finish the job," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay told Canadian Press on Monday
So… we truly are a colonial importer of Western democracy. We’ll achieve this “success” using conventional forces engaged in conventional war against a non-conventional target fighting in a non-conventional manner. And… along the way, we’ll also ask the troops to do a little civilian policing while they engage in re-development initiatives...
So we set up bases, we travel about the cities on foot patrols and we ride around in highly visible slow moving convoys – all easy targets… and the casualties rise.
"The exit strategy is success," Canadian Prime Minister Harper said. "There will be no other conditions under which this government leaves Afghanistan. We will succeed in our security mission and we will see that country moving in irreversible progress to being an economically prosperous and peaceful society. That is the only way this government will leave."
"We’ve said all along that we’re there to finish the job," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay told Canadian Press on Monday
So… we truly are a colonial importer of Western democracy. We’ll achieve this “success” using conventional forces engaged in conventional war against a non-conventional target fighting in a non-conventional manner. And… along the way, we’ll also ask the troops to do a little civilian policing while they engage in re-development initiatives...
So we set up bases, we travel about the cities on foot patrols and we ride around in highly visible slow moving convoys – all easy targets… and the casualties rise.