One suspects there’s an unofficial reason for Canada setting itself up for a withdrawal, too. Talk of withdrawing from Afghanistan will sooner or later become as common as it has been regarding Iraq. Not now, to be sure: the clock of futility hasn’t run its course yet. But after providing proof for what can already be theorized with about as much accuracy as the theory that the sun will set this evening: Short of sending in Rambo, if he can be pried off his Rocky retirement, Afghanistan isn’t the sort of place any western nation can tame.
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