| Tell me something, Prax. I was reading a piece in Maclean's last year about the latest Canadian kid to die in Afghanistan, and the guy in question was from Thunder Bay, Ontario, a member of this-or-that reserve unit.
Now I can understand why the US sends reservists -- it's a way of keeping regular forces down to levels where you can pretend you aren't as bogged down in foreign adventures as you really are.
By why are Canadian troops in Afghanistan not all regs?
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |