Afghanistan: Taliban: Talibanis on the rise again, now Canada hit by brunt of hostilities

While still under the minority government of the Liberal Party, Canada has been drawn into the center of hostilities in Afghanistan, as the Talibani network reconstitutes itself and adapts new techniques they've learned from Al-Quaeda in Iraq. Obviously, the new rash of suicide bombings by guerillas against the Afghan democracy, the UN forces, and especially from our angle in Toronto against the Canadian warriors there, this entire trend of terrorism toward increased use of suicide bombings demonstrates that the Afghan war against terrorism is one of the two main theatres of a single war, the other being Iraq. The US is fiting in both, but of course most concentrated in Iraq now; Canada is in the same war, suffering losses, sacrificing for Afghani democracy, and the US is also still fiting in Afghanistan. Both countries are de facto at war against a common enemy - but with different distribution between the two theatres of the war, indeed the two democracies, where the hostilities continue.

The sacrifice, heroism, and tragedy of the Canadian guys dead and those still surviving now in the US military hospital in Germany are something that should be honoured now, even in the midst of Canada's election campaign. At home Canada is participating in a war-time election, is a country at war against terrorism, and we should consider how much we need a party and government in power that will pursue the war vigourously toward victory for all humankind. - Politicarp