Chet Malone
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Hello dave.
Well there are as many opinions as there are people in Canada, as to why we are where we are. First and foremost the number one reason is appeasement. Before 9/11 Washington and Ottawa were not on very good terms, after 9/11, to turn the tide and show the US some good will, Chretien agreed to send in a small contigent of 750 troops, but only for 6 months, kind of like a piece offering to the Americans, to show there were no hard feelings and bolster some cheerio between the two. What they planned for and what they got were two totally different scenerios. When Bush went into Iraq in 2003, he asked Canada, among other NATO countries to pickup the slack in Afghanistan. So overnight we had to come up with a completetly new plan, because again, Chretien agreed to send more troops over. Canada got the smelly end of the stick, by the time the other NATO countries that makes up ISAF i.e Germany, Holland, UK, had agreed and picked their deployment areas, we were left with Kandahar province, its a hornets nest for taliban insurgents and the most dangerous province in all of Afghanistan. While some countries forbid their troops to go into combat,they can get away with that, because of were their troops are situated, our troops have no choice, its the gunfight at the OK corral, you either shoot or be shot.
People always ask "Why is Canada fighting and not peacekeeping" Number one, none of us who served were ever trained to become peacekeepers, we were all trained to fight in combat, like any soldier is. Number two. In order to bring some calm to the chaos, we must first defeat the thing that is causing the chaos, the taliban, who are ruthless and will stop at nothing short of trying to kill anyone, who gets in their way. Women, children etc.
One for the gipper. I think we are all in this together, with the excpetion of Iraq, which in my opinion was a very big miscalculation. But as for Afghanistan if we can somehow help get these people get back on their feet to a point were they can fend for themsleves and keep the Taliban at bay, we've done our job and we can bring our troops home, until that happens.....??
As for Bin Laden and American foriegn policy, well first off Bin Laden had to find another enemy after the soviets left Afghanistan, who better than the Americans. Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you, ha, he bit it right of! Bin Laden would like nothing better than to see the world revert back to 1400 hundred years ago when Islam was as he woud say "true Islam". Back to the dark ages. He is so twisted in his thinking that he thinks by blowing things up and killing people, people will actually be swayed to his fanatical vurtues. Some do mind you, but again these are the exceptions and not the rule. Bin Laden is nothing but a fanatical phycotic maniac, no different than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin were.
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