On Tue, 10 May 2005 09:15:27 +1000, the renowned "Tom Miller"
wrote:


Same problem down here in Aus.Somehow though the Canadians don't seem to get
dragged into the various wars that the US organises every time there is a
downturn in the various military suppliers fortunes. We however, seem to
trot off behind them to such marvellous successes as Viet Nan, Afghanistan,
and Iraq.

Canada is very definitely in Afghanistan. Many of the police and other
civic employees are being paid directly (not through the UN or other
NGOs) by hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian taxpayer funds,
and (to a lesser extent) secured by Canadian troops.

The place is still a horrible mess though. And the parts that are not
under control (most of it outside of Kabul) is a narco-state run by
various heavily armed warlords. There are enough weapons there for
years of fairly heavy combat.


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Spehro Pefhany
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