The uncle of the latest Canadian soldier kill in Afghanistan has asked the question. Why are we in Afghanistan? Reading of several articles have many people in her home town asking this question in grief. I must admit that or government and media outlets do not do a very good job to highlight why we are there. Afghanistan is a country that has been in turmoil for centuries and the last tyrants to control the country, used the blanked of religion to hide their sadistical abuses they practised.
Earlier this week a young couple tried to flee their village in Nimroz province (currently controlled by the Taliban) they were hunted down taken to a mosque, controled by ulta conservities, found guilty taken out into the street and exicuted. The crime Abdula Aziz and Gul Pecha commited, they wanted to get married. They were gunned down because of love. This happened regularly under the resigm of the Taliban along with there other humanitarian crimes like preventing girls from going to school. Under the Taliban it was common place for young children to starve to death because there father was killed and there mothers where then not able to go out in public to get food and water to substain their lives. People a killed regularly in the remote provinces for there religious and political views, opresion is a way of life.
We can't consously, in a have country, allow this to return to Afganistan. There are not enough troops in the country to properly police the country and bring it into modern times. We in the west have sent over token relief to make ourselves feel better but not be inconvienced. maybe it is time we were inconvienced. Maybe it is time that we do something for others and not just our selves.
This is my point of view
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Canada has never had this 'heroic' complex in its foreign policy. How can you tell me that Afghanistan needs to be helped when no foreign power(muslim or christian country) has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan since it was first created over 225 years agao.
On top of this, remember, the Taliban are run by men... As is this country's military...
You can take your pro-military stance and shove it. Support the troops, BRING THEM HOME! (The real and original Support our troops slogan from the Vietnam war)
Canada has always had a 'heroic' complex in its foreign policy. When PM King approached Sir Winston Churchill about forming NATO it was to create a political organization to control the USA and their nuclear bomb that was fairly 'heroic'. When the honorable Pearson proposed the the formation of the UN peacekeeping force that was 'heroic'. Ths stand against Pres. Bus and his false evidence for invading Iraq was fairly 'heroic'.
You mention that no one has been able to occupy Afghanistan in its 225 year history. And you are correct but I did not say anything about occupation. I talk about helping these people get on their feet and make it on their own. About stopping the brutality of the foreign occupying force of Taliban. Yes they are also a foreign force trying to occupy Afghanistan. If we can build stability into the current government and hope for the people then they will themselves keep the foreign occupiers at bay.
I do not understand the comment about men controlling these organizations. Women leaders through the ages have been some of the toughest and ruthless out there. Lady Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir. Cleopatra had her own 10 year old brother killed so that she could take the throne.
This post was not pro-military but pro-people, pro-freedom and pro- Afghanistan. How can you sit back with a blind eye as people are brutally oppress. Also if we can help bring stability here then it will begin to move through out the region.
The Vietnam war is not even in the same category as the conflict in Afghanistan. The US Vietnam war was started by JFK to try and get back some of his lost reputation after the bay of pigs.
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