Force Can't Beat Taliban: Minister

The comments came on a day when NATO's supreme commander, U.S. Gen. James Jones, called for reinforcements from member nations for the embattled southern region, where Canadians, Americans, Dutch and British are leading the fight. "We cannot eliminate the Taliban," O'Connor told a Reuters reporter in Australia, "not militarily anyway. We've got to get them back to some sort of acceptable level ..." O'Connor's candour was a clear shift from just more than three months ago when he told a Commons' committee he welcomed large-scale Taliban attacks because it gave Canadian soldiers the opportunity to kill them in large numbers. http://tinyurl.com/jmmyr

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