The Canadian government confirmed on Tuesday November 16th, that its military force in Afghanistan would end the combat mission at the end of 2011. Although United States asked members of NATO including Canada to continue to put military efforts in Afghanistan, Canadian Parliament announced that they had already set timetables for the withdrawal of their military. However, the Parliament stated that some of the military forces will still remain in Afghanistan for repairing, teaching, training Afghan security forces, providing medical aids and so on that are not involved with dangerous combats.According to the public opinion poll in Canada, only little proportion of Canada is supporting the continued fighting in Afghanistan. Therefore although Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative party and their government does not have enough seats to have majority votes, other major opposition parties such as Liberal party of Canada are expected to support Conservative Party's proposal. Bob Rae, a Liberal member of Parliament said "There are obviously still a lot of operational details to work out. But it's not as if there's any doubt about the support of the two major parties." during an interview in order to assure that Liberals will be supportive towards the government's proposal.
In my point of view, I strongly support Canadian government's decision on withdrawing the Canadian troops from the combat missions in Afghanistan. According to the statistics, the Afghan war is the first time which significant number of Canadian soldiers (152 soldiers) have been killed since conflict in Korea. It is heartbreaking for me to see Canadian soldiers return home lifelessly especially when unnecessary sacrifices can be prevented if government just decides to withdraw their troops. Considering that Remembrance day (November 11th) was only about a week ago, it is very emotional and pleasing for me to hear about the Canadian government's decision on withdrawing troops.
Secondly I also support Canadian government's decision on 
leaving the soldiers behind in Afghanistan not for life threatening reasons such as combat but for safe and much more meaningful reasons such as repairing, teaching, training, providing medical aids and so on. It is equitable that Canada is helping other countries that need help and I surely believe that this support doesn't always have to involve human life sacrifices. In fact rather than having thousands of soldiers risking their lives to fight in battles which seem to be endless, teaching, repairing, training and providing medical aids can be much effective towards Afghanistan and their people.
leaving the soldiers behind in Afghanistan not for life threatening reasons such as combat but for safe and much more meaningful reasons such as repairing, teaching, training, providing medical aids and so on. It is equitable that Canada is helping other countries that need help and I surely believe that this support doesn't always have to involve human life sacrifices. In fact rather than having thousands of soldiers risking their lives to fight in battles which seem to be endless, teaching, repairing, training and providing medical aids can be much effective towards Afghanistan and their people.On the whole I wholeheartedly agree to Canadian government's decision on withdrawing troops in Afghanistan. There is no doubt that Canada's decision towards withdrawing troops will help the world to be one step closer to achieving the world peace. I hope to see the Afghan war finally come to an end in the near future in order to achieve peace and prevent further unnecessary sacrifices.
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