M.Dancer Posted June 13, 2007 Author Report Posted June 13, 2007 Questions determine the answer...... Is this another crazy poll that has nothing to do with the real facts. Dancer is out to lunch on this one. Canada's involvement in Afghanistan is all about oil and supporting U.S. led 'Operation Enduring Freedom'. Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. oil companies have been out to exploit Caspian Sea oil and gas. Afghanistan is important to U.S. oil companies because it is the only route that will provide total control for them via the proposed Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. Yeah those oil pipelines....whats there production anyway? Tinfoil? Quote RIGHT of SOME, LEFT of OTHERS If it is a choice between them and us, I choose us
Leafless Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 Questions determine the answer...... Is this another crazy poll that has nothing to do with the real facts. Dancer is out to lunch on this one. Canada's involvement in Afghanistan is all about oil and supporting U.S. led 'Operation Enduring Freedom'. Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. oil companies have been out to exploit Caspian Sea oil and gas. Afghanistan is important to U.S. oil companies because it is the only route that will provide total control for them via the proposed Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. Yeah those oil pipelines....whats there production anyway? Tinfoil? Eventually, maybe. Quote
normanchateau Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 No. Better to stay mobile and keep the enemy off balance. Perhaps that mobility will extend to Pakistan where al Qaeda does have bases according to the National Post in Saturday's edition. That mobility may need to extend to Iran now that there is irrefutable evidence that Iran is arming the Taliban. See: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/13/...in2921708.shtml Quote
Topaz Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 This past Saturday, I was watching a talk program and the interviewer was talking to a guy who has been in Afghanistan a long time and he has talked to alot of people within the government and the country. His opinion is that NATO should be out of there in 2 years or risk the same thing that the US is into in Iraq, a civil war. Like Iraq, this can't be won militarily and alot of Afhans don't support their President who runs a corrupt government. I don't think the Canadian government did their homework on this country before we went in. How can you give freedom to people if the country is corrupt ????? Quote
Army Guy Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 Rebilding nations has no known mathematical equation that could possibly answer the question I asked...therefore you say rebuilding the nation is the proper course to take? Without definition and without limitation? This is an intelligent committment of our under-equiped and under-manned armed forces? Good strategy? Rebuilding is what needs to happen yes, This is not the first time Canada has done this. It may not have been the most intelligent commitment to under take but we are there now, have already spent funds on building infra struture needed to support us to carry out this mission why not stay and finish the job. As for proving to the world that we cannot keep our committments; By committing our undersourced forces to open ended committments we are guaranteeing that such committments will not be honoured. We are stretched making it to 2009, as you well know One of our biggest faults is we continue to provide the government with sucesses, it comes at a cost to our equipment and personal, the government keeps making these commitments "quoting you done it last time". and to the government it is worth the cost. We are stretched , and have been for more than 15 years now, but government and the people of Canada are well aware of that, an although support for the military has grown in leaps and bounds, people are still not willing to give up what it is going to take to rebuild the forces. Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
normanchateau Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 Like Iraq, this can't be won militarily and alot of Afhans don't support their President who runs a corrupt government. I don't think the Canadian government did their homework on this country before we went in. How can you give freedom to people if the country is corrupt ????? I think we did do our homework. When Chretien committed forces to Afghanistan, the depth of the corruptness of the Karzai government was not evident. Now it's obvious that the government is or at least has become a corrupt coalition of warlords, "former" Taliban, drug dealers, human rights abusers and religious fundamentalists. The corruptness of the government unfortunately plays into the hands of the Taliban. Quote
Fortunata Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 The government may now be corrupt but without influence from countries like Canada it will stay that way or disintegrate into dictatorship or Taliban controlled as before. And the only way we can hope for our influence to take hold is to stay there in one form or another. If NATO pulled out wave goodbye to any hope of good government. Quote
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