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2006-11-09 Afghanistan

Canada says has broken S. Afghan Taliban uprising

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Odd init, if that were the taliban saying we have broken the backs of the westerners christ you'd never hear the end of it from the media for weeks, infact here in the Uk the average person probably dosnt even know the canadians are there fighting em. I await this report on the media but i do not hold my breath for fear of collapsing though...

Posted by Shep UK 2006-11-09 05:17|| 2006-11-09 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Absolutely Shep - the Coalition are winning? Best keep that hush hush as it doesn't suit the hand-wringing agenda. I await the Taliban's black flag appearing permanently on the Al-Grauniad's masthead. Sheesh. Go on the Canadians! Nice work.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-11-09 06:17|| 2006-11-09 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 When we turn tail in Iraq, it's going to be hard to keep Canadians dying in Afghanistan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-09 08:43|| 2006-11-09 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Frankly, I'd prefer the Taliban doing the dying.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-09 09:23|| 2006-11-09 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Beauty!

Now to find the people supplying the suicide vests and making the IEDs. Therein lies the hard part.

Posted by eLarson 2006-11-09 11:06|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-11-09 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 most Canadians pessimistic about the future of the mission and want the troops to come home

It occurs to me that the enemies of the West may be right about us; we have no will to fight and will recall our troops rather than risk bloodshed. My father's generation had to cope with the news that Allies had 9,000 casualties in one morning in 1944 and had secured only a few feet along the coast of Normandy for that. Armored German counterattacks would take tens of thousands more lives and the war would go on for almost a year, with massive civilian casualties. If that happened today the "peace" movement would insist the troops come home and we begin discussions for a diplomatic end to hostilities. Hitler would remain a revered figure throughout central Europe. The US, UK, Canada and Australia would be the only liberal democracies in the world, the UK would be under tremendous pressure to ally itself with fascist Europe. But we would have "peace" and our heroes would be home.

Today's enemies may be too tough and too scary for us moderns to confront. They may have us figured.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-11-09 12:42|| 2006-11-09 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Baba, today's enemy is not as visible as Hitler. Adolph had an army, tanks, airplanes, etc, all of which he used to devastating effect against both militaries and civilians. He invaded numerous other countries. There was no way the appeasers could deny that he had to be defeated.

Today's enemy is quite different as I'm sure you understand. They are far far less visible. Their threat is much less overt. Thus it becomes extraordinarily difficult to convince average joe public who neither sees nor is directly impacted by the conflict that it is worth the death of any soldiers. The media is absolutely complicit in this ignorance, but the ignorance is there nevertheless. That is why there will be little or no support to fight this war the way it must be fought until one or a series of significant attacks occurs in the west.

Posted by remoteman 2006-11-09 14:36|| 2006-11-09 14:36|| Front Page Top

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