Mission Creep
Via Progressive Bloggers I came across this little bit of info:
First of all we need to ask ourselves if we can even provide something that looks like a solution for Afghanistan. How will we know if things are better there? Is there a goal that the government has in terms of GDP-per-capita, murder rates, human rights conditions or anything else? Afghans seem profoundly resistant to the idea that they organise their society as anything other than a loose confederacy of tribes and clans. Can we really make them like the idea of a central government?
Tags: Afghanistan, Canada, NATO, tanks, Canadian Forces.
A warning order was issued earlier this week to the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) in Edmonton to prepare for the deployment. Twenty tanks are being readied for the operation and about 300 personnel will be heading to Afghanistan.Great. If there is one thing that I'm really looking forward to it's the idea that we are now having Canada's (antiquated) main battle tanks in Afghanistan. This is mission creep, we need to have a serious discussion about this.
First of all we need to ask ourselves if we can even provide something that looks like a solution for Afghanistan. How will we know if things are better there? Is there a goal that the government has in terms of GDP-per-capita, murder rates, human rights conditions or anything else? Afghans seem profoundly resistant to the idea that they organise their society as anything other than a loose confederacy of tribes and clans. Can we really make them like the idea of a central government?
Tags: Afghanistan, Canada, NATO, tanks, Canadian Forces.
posted by Dan at 12:38 AM
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