05 March 2009
The mainstream media has finally fully caught up to where we were in 2006. It is now commonly recognized that we have massive problems with AfPak, and that Pakistan is the real problem.
The Afghanistan Problem: Can Obama Avoid a Quagmire?
Unfortunately, the 2009 reporting is at least three years too late:
“Curious Circumstance” published on April 12, 2006
“Kabul to Lashkargar” published on April 14, 2006
“Whipping Boy” published on April 21, 2006
“Dasht-e-Margo” published on April 25, 2006
“A Virgin Market” published on May 2, 2006
“Camp Bastion” published on May 4, 2006
“The Long Road Ahead” published on May 12, 2006
“Hiatus Corpus” published on May 22, 2006
“There Be Dragons” published oh July 6, 2006
“The Perfect Evil, Part I of III” published on September 25, 2006
“The Perfect Evil Part II of III” published on October 9, 2006
“The Perfect Evil Part III” published November 9, 2006
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Comments
This is NOT going well and it has nothing to do with America. It has to do with the lack of courage from our Socialist European "allies".
It's amazing.
I fear that someday your conflagration reporting will be coming from the Fly-Over Country of our great land. Stay strong and safe; know that our prayers are with you and your friends.
Regarding the 'torture' kerfluffle, I think you caught a lot of us by surprise because BHO's rhetoric on the subject was the same as GWB's. You made it sound like BHO was saying something new, which he was not. That said, I learned a lot from you regarding Abu Grahib incidents and how they negatively impacted the original occupation efforts. If you are saying that Obama's message was well received by the swayable Muslim moderates, and I think that is your underlying point, then I believe you.
I'm trusting you - and only a couple of others - to keep me honestly informed of the events on the ground. I pray you are wrong about the 2009 casualties.
I wanted to make the point that Canada has been in from the beginning in the Afghanistan fight and has been doing a fair share of the heavy lifting for some time. The Canadian Army was stripped down and essentially destroyed after the ƒ??peace dividendƒ? of the late 90ƒ??s. Since then the Army has been in a desperate struggle to modernize, grow in size, and fight a war. The Army needs time to regroup, grow and evolve. It is a shame and an embarrassment, but it is both needed and prudent to do so.
Look for Canada to remain with our Special Forces and reconstruction teams. It is a shame but please do not condemn our soldiers or their effort. This falls on the voters and the politicians who gutted the Army and then sent it into battle.
We've already taken more casualties than any coalition countries but the U.K and U.S.A by far, including Iraq - and we're one of the smaller pop. countries in the coalition. It seems like people don't have the appetite to lose far and away more proportionally than everyone but the U.S and U.K. in a seemingly indefinite war. What worries me about is that it seems to be at least partly our influence in saying we need more support from NATO that got 700 more French fighting, and the Dutch have also been one of the 5 or so worthwile coalition partners and I think it has to do with them seeing it as a parallel on their part for Afghanis to World War II, when it was Canadian troops who liberated Holland.
So when Canada draws down, do the other countries say 'we need to step in now' or does it leave America and the U.K. alone?
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