`Hey Bruce, Tbus, Are you lurking?

Do you think Afghanistan has turned into a PC clusterfuck or what?`

If I`m the Bruce you mean, I think Afghanistan has been a cluster fuck since day one. If the mission is a stabilized country, it`s a failed mission. The war there has been a very defensive one on the part of NATO troops. To quote Sgt Barnes in the movie, `Platoon`, `You can`t expect to fight a war with one hand tied around your balls.`

It has become increasingly murky in that country. No one is winning, except maybe the Grim Reaper. My recollection is that Canada ended up there--to the tune of 2,500 troops--because the US needed to get some troops into Iraq, rfn, and as a sop to Bush (I often thought that if Bush ever stopped short, Harper would be stopped from doom only by his shoulders) because we`d incurred Bush`s wrath over not becoming a member of the ridiculous Coalition of the Willing.

That said,