"Harper's fate tied up with Karzai's" ? "Taliban" Jack makes gain?

Look, a visit from another dimension.

It sure looks like the tide could well be turning here, at least in Afghanistan, although this perpetual state of war mentality that the Pentagon seems to have latched onto, is definitely not a good omen.
Kodos to all those posters here at rabble/babble that have been calling for withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan long before it became popular with the Canadian "in" crowd. I know it´s not over yet, but good on you for all your efforts.

It just keeps getting harder to believe in Afghanistan

The guy most likely to hang on to power is a fraud backed by thugs in the service of values we like to claim we could never support

So how are we doing? Afghanistan is deadlier for Canadians and our allies than ever. As a hole for military effort and expense in blood and treasure, it is getting deeper, not filling up. The guy who seems likeliest to hang onto power there is a fraud backed by thugs in the service of values we like to claim we could never support.

All of this to keep Afghanistan from breeding more terrorists—even though most of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia and hatched their plot in Germany, two countries we are not proposing to occupy and democratize.

At some point, the logical conclusion is that Afghanistan has ceased to be worth the effort because the effort does not make it measurably better on any axis that matters to its citizens or our own. Each observer will reach that point at a different time. For me it would tend to come very late indeed, because I have believed since Sept. 11, 2001, that this is Canada’s struggle too and that we should make a meaningful contribution.

It’s just harder and harder to see what’s meaningful about all this. On the so-called rape law, here’s what Stephen Harper said in the spring:

“The involvement in the international community, and particularly Canada and our NATO allies, is based on the pursuit of very fundamental values in opposition to the kinds of values the Taliban stood for . . . If we drift from that, there will be a clear diminishment in allied support for this venture.”

Since he said those words in April, the law Harper decried has come into force and 11 more Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan. It becomes harder every day to believe that patience in this struggle is synonymous with virtue.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/08/it-just-keeps-getting-harder-to-belie...

I'll move this to Canadian politics.

Cueball, that's how flame wars get started.  Don't.

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