Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday that Canada will not extend its mission in Afghanistan beyond 2011. Harper and Clinton held a brief a bilateral meeting Tuesday morning ahead of a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in Gatineau, Que. Harper's statement comes after Clinton told CBC's The Hour that the United States would like Canada to stay in Afghanistan after 2011, the year Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan is scheduled to end. "It's up to Canada to decide how you deploy your forces," Clinton told host George Stroumboulopoulos in an interview that will be aired Tuesday evening. "But I'm not going to sit here and tell you we're happy about it because … that wouldn't be telling you the truth. We'd love to have Canada stay in this fight with us. But again, you know, you've got your own considerations and we respect that."
I feel we should send some troops to help America in Afghanistan because I feel once we pull our troops out, something big will happen and Canada will have to go back in and restart all their work they already completed. Not sending all the troops but only some combat troops I feel would be a wise decision.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/30/afghanistan-clinton-cannon.html
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