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I don't understand the NDP. They say they stand for women's rights but are willing to abandon the women of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

Pakistan needs to understand that it's best interests lie in defeating extremism not encouraging it.

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Afghan war takes a toll on Canada
By Laura King and Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writers
January 29, 2007

 
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MASUMGHAR, AFGHANISTAN — In the wind-scoured high desert that was once the heartland of the Taliban movement, the will and determination of a little-heralded American ally have been undergoing a harsh test.

For the last six months, the task of confronting insurgents in volatile Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan has largely fallen to Canada, whose troops have participated in myriad peacekeeping missions in recent years but had not seen high-intensity combat since the Korean War.

Although its nearly 3,000 troops account for less than 10% of the allied forces in Afghanistan, Canada absorbed nearly 20% of the coalition's combat deaths last year, losing 36 soldiers.

A Canadian diplomat also was killed, by a suicide bomber.

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troung

By what, talking?

They are led by stupid people and stupid people do stupid things.

With a brain they would have figured out the Taliban stirred up tribal Pashtun revolts during the 1990s in Pakistan and are doing it today, that the Taliban publically issued threats in the 1990s to the Pakistani government. With a brain they would have figured that the CARs felt threatened by the Taliban and called for more Russian soldiers rather then opening up to Pakistan. Or by hosting Central Asian terrorists they would make no friends. With a brain they would have figured out the damage they were doing to their own country by hosting terrorists who murdered Pakistanis, stole cars in massive numbers, destoryed their own customs revenue and pushed drugs. With a brain they would have figured out that relations with Iran were falling apart over the Taliban. They would figure that their Afghan policy turns the population towards India. They actually thought the world would come around to the Pakistani position on the Taliban giving Pakistan leverage with the world.

They are criminally stupid people and we need to point a gun to their stupid head to make them do what we want. Too bad our leadership is actually dumber then them.

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Too bad our leadership is dumb as a box of hair of we would not be in this stupid situation of giving those pieces of **** weapons in exchange for killing NATO/US soldiers and Afghani civilians. With the Vietnam level of idioticy (safe havens and worse; rewarding our enemies) being shown in the Afghan war I would not blame our allies for leaving us holding the bag.

If the resolution on Pakistan passes then we can drop the bastards like a 17 year old at a rave with a tablet of "E", cripple their economy and military and turn them back into the failed state they are.

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Archer

You are obviously white, Russian, anti-Islamic and funded by RAW.

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