The McChrystal Report and Implications for Canada

I have said it many many (many) times - this is a stupid place to be as a comfortable middle power.

The General says we have to change strategies


And I think he is right. Our strategy should be "get the fuck out" as quickly as possible before we lose another series of soldiers to a cause no one really understands or that we are in any way responsible for.

They actually want to re-integrate the very people we deposed.

Lunacy.

The dumbest part is when commentators (with all their expertise) suggest that by pulling out, we (the Ignatieff (L - Manchester) royal we, the USA) would be open to more attacks by pulling out.

Sorry, what? We leave a place where we are already the target by virtue of being there, and the people who attacked us for being in Saudi Arabia will have a new training ground from which they can attack us?

Please. If the same resources that are currently being expended in Iraq and the 'Stan are redeployed to the West, there is nothing that could get through that wall.

Unless they are already inside it - something that a continued presence in the area will only embolden.