WRONG WAR, WRONG PLACE

There is an ongoing discussion about our deployment to Afghanistan as casualties mount.

We are in a war, Canadians don't flinch and run. Our soldiers will do as they are ordered and I can understand our military's enthusiasm for the job after years of criminal neglect by the government and by extension the Canadian public. However, the wisdom of our deployment escapes me. What in real terms is the benefit to Canada for this exercise of Empire?

I'm entirely unconvinced that there is any benefit either for us or the Afghan people. Remember in this game of real politic the home team is the Taliban. Our soldiers are needed at home in the coming confrontations over our claims to ownership of our North not off playing deadly silly bitch with the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is nice that our soldiers are getting their career tickets punched by participating in a war, but its the wrong war in the wrong place.

JWL