THEIR VIETNAM?:

General frets about home front (MITCH POTTER, 10/01/06, Toronto Star)

It is the Canadian public and not the Taliban that is the greatest threat to peace and prosperity in Afghanistan, Canada's top military man on the ground told the Star.

In one of his most pointed political statements to date, Brig.-Gen. David Fraser, commander of NATO's eight-nation effort to put down southern Afghanistan's increasingly visible insurgency, said the weakest link in the mission is Canadians' tendency to seize on negatives and worry them to death.

The formula for failure, Fraser said, is "our country not supporting the needs of the Afghans who are looking for a future. "

Boy, they really are becoming America Lite.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 1, 2006 9:54 AM