A long time in the mountains

Watched Major General Andrew Leslie On Diplomatic Immunity on TVO. He laid out the scenario that Canadian Forces will be Afghanistan for the next two decades. The general is confronting the fact that a big chunk of the army is going to tied up by training to go Afghanistan, being in Afghanistan and recovering from being in Afghanistan. This realism is in contrast to technocolour dreaming by the Gulf War II planners.

Irony Alert
The general, the host and the regular panalists all talked about the need to reduce poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. All were wearing poppies, as part of the regular run up to Rememberance Day.