One of my favourite blogs, The Galloping Beaver, has an ex-military man as one of its authors. This gives the blog's coverage of Canadian military matters an added level of detail that you don't get from Canadian media, who cover our Afghanistan military adventure the way Don Cherry talks about the Leafs on Coach's Corner.
Well, the sad fact is that we aren't losing the war in Afghanistan: we've already lost.
Read it and weep.
Another blog, Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post At A Time, tells the same story. It's not a nice story.
All the boosterism, wearing red on Fridays, and yellow ribbons isn't going to change a thing militarily: Afghanistan is where empires go to die. It happened to Alexander the Great, it happened to Genghis Khan, it happened to the British Army twice, and it happened to the former Soviet Union. And it will happen to NATO. In fact, it's already happened.
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The prolonged propaganda activities of Canada's former top general, Rick Hillier, left the impression with Canadians that the Afghan 'mission' was winnable and worthwhile.
Reality continues to have a difficult time cracking the psyche of the Canadian public.
There is no doubt that we've 'already lost.'
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