Canada won't rethink 2011 Afghanistan pullout after Obama win

Source: CBC

The election of a new U.S. president who has vowed to deploy thousands more troops into Afghanistan won't cause Canada to reconsider its decision to pull out of the country by 2011, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday.

The United States already has 36,000 troops in Afghanistan, and Barack Obama promised during his campaign for the presidency to send up to 12,000 more while scaling down operations in Iraq.

But Cannon said Obama's election would have no impact on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to withdraw Canadian forces from the country.

"We welcome the renewed focus on Afghanistan on behalf of the president-elect," Cannon said. "The U.S. interest won't change our opinion or intention to withdraw our forces in 2011."



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/05/obama-afghanistan.html

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Obama needs to find a way to dig out from his campaign promise to escalate the war in Afghanistan. That war is now pointless, and cannot be won.

We have no business there.

Give those people in that part of the world their own corner.

no good can come from our continued presence there.

we should leave and let the Taliban have the country. They can't kill everybody in Afghanistan after all.