Canada in Afghanistan

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
This was the RSM and his driver, almost certainly high up in their hatches having just left the base. They were relatively new to Kandahar, so maybe hadn't had time to develop the paranoia necessary in the theatre. Depending on the size of the charge, either blast effects or bits of car might have gotten them anyway, but we'll never know...

Agreed in principle with the 'exclusionary zone', but it would defeat the purpose of being there in the first place to start shooting everybody who looked at you wrong, n'est-ce pas? It's a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't moment.

I disagree with the last part of your last paragraph.

Look at the facts...40+ soldiers killed by suicide bombers. Suicide bombers depend on getting close to their intended target in order to wreak their damage.

If there were an exclusion zone, none of this bullshit would happen.

Let's fully understand that we're dealing with a population mindset going back 2000+ years, of a people who have no concept whatsoever of "fair play" or "Rules of Queensberry", or even the Geneva Conventions. Their ideology is wrapped up the Q'Uran, bolstered by the sharia, augmented by hadith....all foreigh to Western thought processes.

(Allah: note to self: Let's pause our jihad for a while, we're running our of virginal houris).

I think that I voiced this opinion before...if Alexander the Great, Attilla the Hun, the Crusaders, the Holy Roman Empire, the Brits, the Russians...couldn't contain the muhadjin, who the hell are we, under NATO, to think that we will have any effect in the area?