Mr. Speaker, President Karzai says that no “success” is possible in Afghanistan if the NATO mission is exclusively military. Diplomacy, development and reconstruction are essential “to winning the hearts and minds” of the Afghan people.
Yesterday, a senior Canadian officer in Kandahar, Lieutenant Colonel Hetherington, confirmed that nothing much has been accomplished and Canadian forces have been shifted away from reconstruction into military operations.
When was the decision made to change the original nature of this mission?