Hangman said:
Maybe you should try harder to understand, because this is a stupid thing to say. Canada did not send them to be killed. The Taliban killed her, not our country.
The soldiers there know what they're doing and why they are there, and don't need people here in Canada wishing they were home to avoid deaths. They're in the ARMY. To keep them home to keep them safe means disbanding the military. They go where they go when called on to serve. I remind you that they are all volunteers, too.
This is another tragic incident, but we are contributing to positive change, and none of the lives lost have been in vain. If we abandon the mission, then they will be.
I have tried plenty hard. And I think I am entitled to my opinion,
just like you are entitled to yours. If you find it stupid, so be it.
See, I would be able to understand, if Canada's soldiers were over
there in a real war, in combat. But for them to drive back and forth
on roads, that are routinely mined, I find insane. The military should refuse
to expose it's soldiers to this, even if they do it willingly.
I wouldn't mind it so much if Canada sent old retired people over
there to do this. There are plenty of war-eager middle aged men,
Lancslad comes to mind, that would love to go. better them than
young men and women, who still deserve a long life ahead of them.
