Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper doubts Afghan insurgency can be defeated

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Canada's Harper doubts Afghan insurgency can be defeated
CNN
March 2, 2009

(CNN) -- U.S. and NATO forces are engaged in a futile war against the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, Canada's prime minister said.

"We are not going to ever defeat the insurgency," Stephen Harper told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday. "Afghanistan has probably had -- my reading of Afghanistan history -- it's probably had an insurgency forever, of some kind."

Harper's blunt assessment comes as nearly 2,800 Canadian forces are fighting in Afghanistan. The country's parliament has voted to pull them out by 2011.

Harper told CNN that he supports Obama's "renewed commitment to Afghanistan" but said he would not recommit any more Canadian troops until there is a clear plan for leaving Afghanistan.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/canada.afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText?iref=werecommend

[JeffR]

1. WTF? Harper's talking sense and Obama's advocating a bad policy?

The world is even weirder than I ever dreamed.
:crazy: