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The need to re-think Afghanistan
Submitted by Bob Rae on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 07:40.No issue of public policy is more important than Afghanistan, for the simple reason that it is the one place in the world that Canada is at war. Canadian troops have been engaged in the dangerous and difficult task of securing one province, Kandahar for longer than any other campaign since World War One.
Canada's initial engagement in Afghanistan came after the Al Qaeda co-ordinated attack on 9/11. NATO took the position -rightly - that an attack on one was an attack on all.