The ISAF in Afghanistan is actively helping civilians in re-establishing and rebuilding infrastructure. They offer medical aid, respond to natural disasters, and help out wherever else they can in addition to providing security for the civilian population.
http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/mirror/2008/mirror_47_200801.pdf
Here are some of the ways they've been helping out.

And I will admit that the reason that they are currently rebuilding is because the system that was set up before was toppled, so a new one is required.
However, America is not trying to help Iraq rebuild. What are they doing? Training the army on how to handle themselves? That's just so they can say in a couple years,"There ya go, it's your problem now". They are not rebuilding the country that they bombed the bejesus out of.

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UWO '12 Social Science

Right now, they are more focused on combat than rebuilding.

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UWO '12 Social Science

As far as removing government powers is concerned, I wont try to disagree with you because that is self-evident, but my posts have been aimed at defending the fact that Canada, as a country(not individual soldiers) has undertaken a primarily peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. They entered after most of the initial fighting was done or winding down, and began to implement means to start helping the Afghan people rebuild.
If the Taliban came back into power, there is no doubt there will be more violence, because they as an extreme radical Islamic government would see those who gave into the Western ways, even slightly, as being enemies.

Also I believe that there was a difference of opinion between Afghanistan and Iraq as far as coalition countries were concerned. With Afghanistan, countries saw a government that turned a blind eye to the terrorists, which was a threat to global safety. The September 11 attack was not justified and many countries sided with the U.S., however, there was not much reason to believe that Iraq was much of a threat, which is why support of that mission was so low. Look at those countries who opted out of Iraq-Canada, France, Germany etc, and you will see however that they were in support of Afghanistan and still have troops present there to this day.

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UWO '12 Social Science

You've only just learned about the attacks on September 11. I don't think you're quite ready to figure out the difference between WWII and Afghanistan quite yet...



Because Afghanistan is a less fortunate nation who didn't have enormous amounts of resources to build itself. Canadians are helping to rebuild it following the Russian invasions in the 80's and then the following government being terrorists.

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Accepted to Carleton University, Honours Bachelor of Arts in Law

canada is boring as heck. hockey is boring compare to the nfl, nba, and even mlb. (we got no nfl team. 1 nba and mlb team both in toronto and they suck) no marketable stars like allen iverson, kobe bryant, carmelo anthony, shaq, dwyane wade, a-rod, derek jeter. heck steve francis refused to play for the grizz when they were in vancouver. it's basically a bunch of european guys skating in circles. taxes are high (and the money don't funnel back, they go toward drug addicts). it's a welfare state with a bunch of seniors. too many immigrants who never learn english and refused to adapt to mainstream north american culture. and there is only one party to vote for (conservative) even though they're not the ideal choice, unfortunately all other parties are either socialist/communist. oh and the city of richmond is a joke. there is no club scene. no excitement. jay-z, usher, eminem, britney spears (before she got pregnant) and other renowned rappers/celebrity never stop here during their tours. we onlyl get lame guys like avril lavigne or simple plan or some other lame rockers. the schools sucks. most schools don't offer ap courses except private schools so we can't compete with the states. canadian universities/high schools usually give out lower GPAs. in conclusion, i must say, every canadian wants to be in the states deep in their hearts, but their just too cocky to admit this fact

president bush is doing the right thing to topple totalitarian regimes that disregard human rights and present a threat to the united states who protect the free world (including canada and western europe). such regimes (such as N. korea, china, lybia, russia, iran, syria, zimbabwe, vietnam, cuba, venezuela) should be toppled and democracy and pan-americanism should be the defining trend going forward

Nothing like conquering nations and making them into mini-Americas.

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-Stringer

The US sure is a great place to be rich, that's for sure.

kudos to u guys who actually bothered to read through those 5 pages of posts before posting ur own message.

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"My parents live in Ohio; I live in the moment." -himym.

1) I think we are forgetting about them Afghanistan opium fields and their huge increase in production..

2) Almost all of the 9/11 highjackers were from Saudi Arabia. This doesn't mean the Taliban wasn't involved persay.. but shouldn't Saudi Arabia be the first place to go after if that's where the hijackers were found to be reporting to? Oh wait...oil...um...yeahhhh

3) While Canada is losing it's identity culturally, economically, and politically, Mexico is losing people and money outright. This lends credence to the 'North American Union' 'theory', but it's not really a theory when I've seen c-pac videos with Congresspeople openly discussing it....

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~~~Accepted offer to Ba Honors English @ Carleton Univerity, Ottawa ~~~