Altho' a lot of folks remain unaware of it, Canadian troops fought in Afghanistan until the end of 2011 ... the pull out was according to a decision made by our parliament when we went in there. We left after 160 Canadians lost their lives, and billions of our dollars went down the flush. Nobody here regrets the decision. And there is no way that parliament would have voted for an extension. We are not a major military player, altho' our combat forces are top notch, and we played our part ... unlike the nazis and the frogs.
Even after we stayed in "an advisory capacity", we still lost people. It's time to get out of that hole and let the Afghanis deal with their own problems. We might not like how they do things over there; but it's their country and their "culture".