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defence secretary Thursday to say that winning the war in Afghanistan is not simply a matter of military might.
"It’s going to require much more," MacKay said on the steps of the Pentagon alongside Robert Gates after a half hour meeting about Afghanistan.
"It’s going to require obviously an effort to build the capacity of the Afghan government to deliver more for their people; to do more on the training of the Afghan security forces, police and army; to essentially take
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MacKay was qualifying Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent pronouncement that the war in Afghanistan is not winnable.
"We’re not going to
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"Quite frankly, we are not going to ever defeat
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The opposition has accused Harper of a dramatic about face on Afghanistan since he made those comments, pointing out he once pledged not to pull out of the war torn country until the job was done.
Three more Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan this week.
MacKay said Canada was ending its combat role in 2011 as planned because it’s the will of Parliament and the Canadian people, but he added it was not washing its hands entirely of Afghanistan.
"We can’t attempt to build democracy and institutions
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"And so Canada post 2011 will play a role. We will absolutely be in Afghanistan performing important tasks. We will reconfigure what the face of that mission looks like. We will be involved in consultations with our allies. troops to Afghanistan in addition to
cheap michael kors the 30,000 already on the ground there. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a high level conference on Afghanistan at the end of the month as Washington wraps up a review of how to combat the Taliban led insurgency. That review was something MacKay and Gates touched on during their Pentagon chat.
There was no immediate word where the meeting
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State Department spokesman Robert Wood said he expected Iran would be also be issued an invite.
After his visit to the Pentagon a day earlier, MacKay meets Friday on Capitol Hill with the two Democrats who lead the House Armed Services committee, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton.
Levin and Skelton have been the leading voices among Democrats on
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