Keep it coming Rosie (en francais)

They're looking for help in Afghanistan to build a 'bureaucracy' . My first thought was that there are a lot of ex-Liberals looking for a job, but then reality kicked in.

We're trying to help them build a country. No need to teach them about Judicial commissions and investigations as yet.

Rosie Dimanno with yet another good article on the Canadian military's efforts there.

Our Afghan legacy: Red tape

`I have to create a bureaucracy'

Canada is not in Afghanistan simply for nation-building. It's very much about preventing the country from collapsing into a terrorist-friendly environment once again, to say nothing of its ongoing status as a narco-state.

The "exit strategy" some Canadians are demanding of their military involvement here is an Americanism pilfered from misadventures in Vietnam, and applied more latterly — along with such other 'Nam buzzwords as "quagmire" — to the dilemma that is Iraq. But Afghanistan is no Iraq and making that comparison is idiotic.