I am proud of the job that our troops have done there but I question the purpose of the mission. I remain dismayed that so many have died from a common cause (roadside bombs)and why our air force never went there to overfly those roads to prevent planting them. The mission was sold to the Canadian people as helping the Afghan people establish a democracy that would entrench better human rights, especially for women and to help rebuild the country. Instead we have propped up a corrupt government little better than the Taleban. Afghanistan has been a basket case for many years and I don't see that it has changed much.