Harper Responds To Taliban

As I reported yesterday the Taliban has demanded that Canadian troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan, and Stephen Harper has responded by announcing that they will all be out by 2011. No doubt the Taliban will be delighted with this news but I suspect that they are unaware of Harper's record of keeping to fixed time tables.

News From Abroad

The Taliban has urged the next Canadian Prime Minister to pull troops out of Afghanistan. This leads me to two conclusions;

1) The Taliban are the only non-Canadians who are actually aware that an election is taking place.

2) There is a frightening dearth of willingness by any of the parties to deal with this issue in the campaign.