Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Top Canadian soldier lashes out at Afghan elders

"If we keep blowing up on the roads I'm going to stop doing development," Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, commander of the Canadian troops.

It's about time someone spoke out. You cannot build a nation while fighting a war at the same time. National Post

Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, commander of the Canadian troops, lashed out at elders in a Kandahar village after one of his soldiers was injured in a bomb explosion, saying that he wanted to start seeing some "serious co-operation" from the beneficiaries of Canadian aid.

"If we keep blowing up on the roads I'm going to stop doing development," Gen. Vance told a meeting he hastily convened with village elders in Deh-e-Bagh in the district of Dand, according to news reports. "If we stop doing development in Dand, I believe Afghanistan and Kandahar is a project that cannot be saved."

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