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gummybear
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| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
Considering I've had friends serve overseas since 05, just waiting for a bunch of them to come back in few weeks and having 3 people I know being wounded in action, you'd think I'd know what it is to support our soldiers.
I'm not calling you ignorant because you support our troops. I'm calling you ignorant because many left wing peaceniks form an opinion, but they had no clue.
Actually, I take that back and I'll apologize. I'm not going to call you ignorant because you may be one of few peaceniks that may be educated on the issue. I dunno for sure. I got a bit irate.
But very often I speak to left wing types and they can't even name basic facts about about Canada's mission in Afghanistan, being too clueless in their anti Yank rhetoric.
Funny how many left wing types claim to support the troops by wanting to end the mission in Afghanistan, but don't quite realize that most soldiers actually want to serve in Afghanistan, esp those reservists who sign up and volunteer and there aren't enough spots to take them all.
But I digress.
Quoting Walkom who is about credible as Taliban propaganda isn't going to support your argument.
If you want to understand Canada's involvement from political point of view, read up on UN resolutions on Afghanistan. Also NATO articles which specifically said attack on one member is attack on all members.
If you want to understand Canada's involvement from moral point of view, think about this.
If you believe that Canada should support democracy, liberty, human rights and all that stuff. You'd be in support of the mission. Because people like Taliban dont want that stuff in Afghanistan, and little girls will not get their chance for education, or to be elected in govt, or get health care, etc. |
I guess how I feel about the war depends on what I believe are the true motivations behind the it....if you believe the the true motives are what you outlined in your last paragraph..then hell ya..that is an honourable endeavour for any millitary to take on....i believe that the situation is a lot more complicated than that..
no worries..we all have our own opinions..but trust me when i say that i try to learn as much as i can about these things...i'm not some twit that watches cnn and believes that everything they spew is the gospel..
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Mar-24-2009 03:24
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Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco

Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
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| quote: | Originally posted by gummybear
I guess how I feel about the war depends on what I believe are the true motivations behind the it....if you believe the the true motives are what you outlined in your last paragraph..then hell ya..that is an honourable endeavour for any millitary to take on....i believe that the situation is a lot more complicated than that..
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funny thing about this is that Afghanistan mission started with Cretin and supported by the Liberals and continued by Martin (who sent our boys and girls down to Kandahar from Kabul)
I can't tell you for sure what the govt's thinking is
however, I can tell you that the activities Canada is doing is geared towards assisting legit Afghan govt take control of their country and provide for their own citizens without international help eventually.
this means a lot of fighting, because Taliban and other insurgent groups dont want Kabul govt to take control. until there is security in Afghanistan, it's hard for humanitarian missions to work properly. kinda stupid trying to build a school or a hospital when Taliban just burns it down the next day
so our boys and girls do a lot of fighting. in the meanwhile, we have people that specifically try to help rebuild local infrastructure (people in CIMIC, PRT, CIDA and other NGOs) so that eventually Afghans take care of their own
send me a PM if you're interested in a bit of reading about some of activities Canadians are doing in afghanistan. most of it is not really political, but just stories of what Canada is doing in Afghanistan from avg Canadian soldier's point of view
again, sorry about the initial outburst. normally I don't take internet seriously but something just set me off
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Last edited by Yohan on Mar-24-2009 at 03:39
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