The critics of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan, under the aus
pices of the United Nations in a coalition of some 36 other nations, would have us believe that we are there as hostile b
elligerents in some kind of a civil war context, and that our enemy seems to be a somewhat legitimate expression of Pashtun national
ism, and that if we could only sit down and understand the tribal aspirations and the competing nationalisms, we coul
...[+++]d all sit around and work things out.