Today is the 8th anniversary of the beginning of the American war against Afghanistan. The point must be made that this is an American war, begun to serve American interests. It was Bush II's response to 9/11. That's the long and the short of it.
Canada had no quarrel with Afghanistan. Jean Chrétien's Liberal government committed Canadian forces simply to appease the Americans, who were miffed that we had stayed out of Iraq, the other war the Americans were waging at the same time and in the same part of the world.
Indeed, a hundred or two hundred years from now -- if there are still human beings on the face of the earth -- history may record Iraq and Afghanistan as "The American Middle-Eastern War" or something of the sort. And the role played by Canadians -- 131 dead, and counting -- will be just a footnote. WHY?
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