[news] Why Canada Should Get Out of Afghanistan (Two Articles)

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"Canada should pull its troops out of Afghanistan. The West's mission there is no less a 'march of folly,' to use historian Barbara Tuchman's phrase about the U.S. war in Vietnam, than was the Soviet attempt to impose a regime in Afghanistan with its invasion in 1979."

[Second Article] "Since time immemorial, when great emperors went to war, they summoned contingents of their vassals and tributaries to their standards. So it was in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, when the U.S. decided to invade those nations and demand its allies join the so-called 'war on terrorism'...Under irresistible pressure from Washington to aid its highly unpopular military expeditions in either Iraq or Afghanistan, America's allies and NATO partners opted for the lesser evil, Afghanistan."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4308