Canadian PM: NATO can't defeat the Taliban

Well not the way NATO is fighting the way right now. Especially so when our so-called allies, Pakistan, surrenders and aids the taliban in the tribal areas. But there is always a military solution to every conflict.

NATO should step up the conventional war and information war against the terrorists. First, increase the air-strikes against the taliban in their safe havens inside Pakistan. Second, disseminate writings of people like Father Zakaria Botros detailing how islam is a false religion.

A stepped up conventional war against the terrorists should demoralize the enemy. Then the information war should eliminate the motivation to fight in the way of islam by proving that islam is false. Globe & Mail

WASHINGTON -- Canadian and other foreign armies can't defeat the Taliban, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview broadcast yesterday.

"Frankly, we are not going to ever defeat the insurgency," Mr. Harper said, more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan toppled the Taliban regime. Canadian troops have been fighting and dying in Afghanistan since 2002, but this is the first time the Prime Minister has explicitly said defeating the Islamic extremists can't be done.

Mr. Harper, in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, said that despite sending thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan and suffering more than 100 troop deaths, the "success has been modest" and any gains made could be lost.

"We're not going to win this war just by staying," Mr. Harper said, and pointed to the long history of Afghan insurgencies successfully driving out foreign invaders - including the Soviet army in the 1980s and the British a century earlier.

"[From] my reading of Afghanistan history, it's probably had an insurgency forever, of some kind," Mr. Harper said.

The everlasting 'insurgency' is linked to islam. Defeat islam to win in Afghanistan.