R.I.P., brave Canadian soldiers.
Sorry, old chap, but your noble sentiment needs some linkage:
bare facts:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6537545.stm
a fairly decent bombastic editorial:
communities.canada.com/nationalp … istan.aspx
This latest episode will give some pause on our current deployment. One would hope that we have the fortitude to see this fight thru.
Myself, I would hope to see drastic improvements in weaponry, armor, supply, and or course friendly intelligence. Our units are there to do a job, and let’s try to surely over-compensate for the stingy half-assed rigamole that we’ve put our armed forces thru since 1945… 
Another Canadian Memorial day just passed…
Vimy Ridge Stories
“The Canadian soldiers, travelling in a 1956 Studebaker with floorboards reinforced by Molson’s beer cans, Canada’s most advanced Armoured Personnel Carrier…”