It has become an open secret that the Canadian government is preparing to send more troops to Afghanistan when what we need to be doing is bringing them home. The government is preparing to deploy twenty leopard tanks, and the crews to operate them to Afghanistan. The deployment of the tanks will send another approximately three hundred personnel to Afghanistan. Such an increase represents an approximately 15% increase in the forces that Canada has deployed.
This is insanity. This is a sure sign that the mission is going further off the rails. Has no one thought through the fact that a major weapon in the arsenal of Taliban forces is the rocket propelled grenade? This weapon was designed to destroy tanks! When these tanks are deployed they will be firing high explosive shells. These shells will kill yet more civilians. We are digging ourselves deeper into this hole and dangerous similarities to the American war in Vietnam are emerging. In Vietnam, General Westmorland kept claiming that if he got a few more troops he could beat the Viet Cong. The same thing seems to be happening in Afghanistan, but with NATO. "If only they could get 2000 more soldiers, then they can defeat the Taliban." This is the top of a very slippery slope. We need to pull ourselves back from the brink, and return to reality. We need to support our troops by bringing them home.
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For true. It took the dirty soviets ten years and tens of thousands of troops to realize that they could not pacify Afghanistan. The British empire made several costly attempt to make inroads in Afganistan with the same dismal results. What makes us think we're any differnt?
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