Reply #24: Canadian Prime Minister Harper:"We're not going to ever defeat the insurgency." [View All]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/01/cnn-harper.html

snip:

"The insurgency in Afghanistan will never be defeated only by maintaining an international troop presence in the country, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a U.S. television interview Sunday.

"We're not going to ever defeat the insurgency. My reading of Afghanistan in history is that it's probably had an insurgency forever of some kind," Harper told Fareed Zakaria of CNN."

snip:

"Harper said if Obama were to ask Canada for a larger contingent or a continuation of the existing contingent of about 2,500 Canadian soldiers, he would ask the president what his plans are for leaving Afghanistan and allowing Afghans full control over security."

"If we think that we are going to govern Afghanistan for Afghans, or over the long-term be responsible for day-to-day security in Afghanistan and see that country improve, we are mistaken," Harper said. "

link:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/01/cnn-harper.html