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Old 08-29-2012, 11:32 PM   #36
bawayTeen

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I think you should show more gratitude towards the Canadians. In terms of population, Canada isn't a very large country - it has just 34 million people living in a country which is almost exactly the same size as the whole of the continent of Europe - but when you look at the number of fatalities it suffered in Afghanistan then you'll see that Canada put in a lot of effort.

Only the United States and Britain, which both have much larger populations, suffered more fatalities than Canada and I think it's worth pointing out that that small, sparsely-populated country suffered more fatalities in Afghanistan than France and Germany COMBINED. That cannot be something the French and Germans are proud about.

So I think you should show more gratitude to the Canadians and thank them for putting in a decent effort. And then you need to start directing your anger at the French and Germans and ask, now that the Canadians have left, why they can't contribute more troops to this war and actually start taking the fight to the Taliban a bit more rather than staying safe and sound in their bases and being told they can't come out at night "because it is too dangerous." Such ways of fighting a war are NOT the ways of supposed first rate, first class military powers.

So we should thank Canada for its tremendous effort in Afghanistan and now need to start persuading the French and Germans to start filling the hole left by the exit of the Canadians. I wouldn't hold my breath, though.

Number of people in each nation for each one of their troops killed in Afghanistan

UK: 164,456
US: 201,176
Canada: 220,779
France: 928,571
Germany: 1,464,286
Start a thread on the french and germans and Ill chime in there as well.
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