In reacting to the most recent Canadian casualties in Afghanistan, Colonel Jon Vance says that Canadians should stop questioning the Afghan mission and provide a "clarion call of support" to the families of the six soldiers who were killed.
With all due respect, Colonel Vance, I sympathize with the loss of Canada's finest, and obviously it must be devastating losing troops from your own unit, the First Canadian Mechanized Brigade. However, if I was a family member of one of the fallen, the first thing I would want to know exactly WHY my loved ones were sent to die, and I would want a better answer than some propagandist garbage about "fighting the terrorists over there before they get here".
In telling us not to ask questions, Vance puts the Canadian military on the same footing as Al Qaida or the Taliban. Stand down, Colonel Vance, we're not under your command, we're still a democracy, and we can support our troops AND question our government at the same time.
