An Open Entry to Canada's War Brass
I'm starting to find it a bit... offputting... that you, our Canadian Military (oh, and your boss - Stephen Harper's New Conservative Government of Canada) are trying to sell the War on the Taliban in Afghanistan to us - your boss's boss - instead of to the Afghanis - and using our tax dollars (which already support your efforts "over there", you know) to do it.
C'mon now. Take up a collection at the next strategy meeting and buy a brain, guys. We're not the enemy. We're your fellow citizens fronting the bill, regardless of whether or not we agree with what you're doing. Remember? Use the war propaganda on the Afghanis - over in Afghanistan - where the war is. Leave democracy to us who already have it. Everything we need to know about what is actually going on in Afghanistan - we know. We have all the access to information we can handle and are quite capable of making an informed decision about whether or not we think the sacrifice (human and otherwise) is worth it.
Thank you.
Oh, and feel free to steal my little title makeover from the "Mission in Afghanistan" to "Canada's War on the Taliban in Afghanistan". I know it's cumbersome but you seem to be looking for a way to better explain what the hell it is we're doing over there and I thought maybe if you actually called it what it is, it would save you time over here complaining about how nobody understands you, so you could better spend it over there - explaining yourselves to Afghanis.
But, just to be sure, to put our minds at ease - the Afghanis DO know why we're there, right? I mean, not just the ones we're training to take over the fight when we exit some day from the "theatre", as CNNers say, (and Gawd knows why we think we need to train Afghanis in the art of fighting, but... there you go... I'm not a REAL military affairs expert) - but the ones hither and thither, too?
Hither and thither is what I worry about. I hope you do, too. And, well, again - what do I know - but maybe we should train the Afghanis on OUR side, to plant roadside bombs where the Taliban are, since that seems to be the local preferred way of fighting, that, well... seems to work? For them, I mean. You know, the Afghanis who DON'T want us to win "Canada's War on the Taliban in Afghanistan".
Anyway, my thinking is that (and I don't mean to step on any toes, here) if all the effort that is being expended on selling "Canada's War on the Taliban in Afghanistan" to us, was repackaged somehow to be sold to AFGHANIS, (who may not speak Canadian, but, well - pictures are always good - like say, pictures of cops and protestors mingling as one group at Montebello, the cops dressed like the protestors, going that extra step by carrying rocks, etc., to make it appear like cops and protestors are the same in a democracy like Canada) - it would be one small step for Afghanistan, one giant step for you and Stephen Harper's New Conservative Government of Canada.
