According to the CBC website on Canadian Casualties in Afghanistan, there have been a total of 55 deaths. 54 of these were Soldiers and one was a Canadian Diplomat. Many people in Canada are saying how we should bring our troops home. In my opinion, this is wrong.

The military is a dangerous thing. We are there for a reason. It has nothing to do with the Iraq war at all. We went in to take out Al-Qaeda and their networks along with the Taliban aka. the biggest cowards on earth. We sent our soldiers there knowing that some of them may lose their lives fighting for our mission.

There is almost no war you can go in and win without casualties, the exception of course would be to only hit it with missiles from the air and pound it with smart bombs and risk a whole load of collateral damage and civilian deaths.

To anyone who is saying to pull the troops out, what is your basis for this? The deaths or the fact that you just like to protest and whine about the government. If we didn’t go after the bad guys they would just build up and come and hit us really hard. If we did that, then you would still criticize us for not doing anything to stop them. It is a lose-lose situation.

I think we need to keep our troops in for the long run and not be fearful in the face of danger from the biggest cowards and low life trash on this earth. If we stay in there we can beat them. We will lose many more soldiers doing this but in the long run it will be worth it. We are there for a good reason and the world knows it and supports us.

What do you think?