How is the Canadian army doing in Afghanistan? If you only get news from the mainstream media, you would be likely to think our boys are fighting for no good reason, losing a hopeless battle, they're demoralized, and ready to come home. Here's a dispatch by Michael Yon - directly from the battlefront - which bypasses the ideological filter of the mainstream media to give a picture of the true situation on the ground there: Where Eagles Dare. See also the update to this dispatch.
After seven years, the war in Afghanistan has morphed from a breathtaking expedition of a handful of special operators—often on horseback—to a sort of lethal day-to-day business. Morale is high among American, Aussie, British and Canadian soldiers...And yes, our boys find time to play a little hockey out there.
The Canadians have an excellent reputation among British and American forces, and so the Canucks were tasked to clear the road for the convoy. This was a chain of many links: if the Canadians failed, the mission would fail.
