I cannot speak to the motivations of either the previous government's cabinet or the current government's cabinet with regard to choosing Kandahar. I can say, though, as an observer, that it's clear there were many other reasons to go into Kandahar that were equally valid. It was where we were needed. And that's my response to the second point.
To use the analogy of Canada being a fireman who's going into Afghanistan to put out a house that's on fire—the Afghan house—yes, we may be upset that there aren't enough firemen there behind us or willing to come in, or that other fire halls haven't contributed as many trucks, but it would be a moral mistake for us to, in a fit of pique, wrap up our hose while the house was still burning just because the other fire halls hadn't contributed as much as we would have liked in putting out the fire.