Dying for Dope - This is an "honorable" Canadian Mission?
The NY Times reports that the Taliban have set new records in their lucrative poppy crops.
For this, Canadian soldiers, ill-equipped, are dying on foreign soil?
And if you're always on the lookout, as I am, for tell-tale signs of government (in)efficiencies, you'll love this: The U.S> is spending $600 Million a year in counter-narcotics programs in Afghanistan! Even their own ambassador says it's not working. No kidding, boss!
Honoring soldiers and "supporting our troops" is one thing. Agreeing with suicide missions is another entirely.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier OF the Queen!
Kipling had it right then and it is still right now.
The Canadian contingent of troops are being used, just like they were at Dieppe, as a 'bird dog' to scare out the opposition and learn how to deal with it in the long run.
I think that the lessons are there to be seen in 3000 years of history, first Alexander of Macedonia, the the Mongols; they did the military thing in Afghanistan right (ever hear of a place called Karizam? no? that's because the Golden Horde wiped it off the face of the earth!).
The British, the Soviets and now NATO did it and are continuing to do it wrong.
The end result will be next to nil, better to leave now and make fewer enemies than continue and build more enemies that my sons will have to deal with.
Check out the views of a Soviet veteran:
Canada in Afghanistan
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