Canada's doors still closed to Afghan interpreters

US and Australia have welcomed their translators, but Canada's are left biding their time, and fearing Taliban violence.

By Jeff Davis

Published December 9, 2009

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02/02/10 at 06:02 pm

By VERN HUFFMAN

Why are we sending Canadians to die in The Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan when Afghans are fleeing to Canada? Are the Afghans ready to fight for their own country? In The Second World War of the Twentieth Century, forteen million Canadians put over a million citizens in uniform for a war that was not declared on us. There are about twenty six million Afghan people, where is their million member army? This is after eight years and a quarter trillion dollars. Do the great powers want an independent Afghanistan? The Afghans beat the British three times and the Russians as well, are the Taliban richer and more powerful than those two empires? What are we not being told? This stinks.