Neil Young's Living with War Today website has an interesting article titled Living With War In Canada, comparing today's involvement of Canadian troops in Afghanistan to the involvement and losses of other countries in the last 160 or so years there. The author voices his concern about the impact of having Canadian involvement in a war activity as opposed to peace-keeping, whether it puts a target on Canada. I'm not comfortable with that, either.

In the winter of 1842, the British army began a retreat from Kabul, Afghanistan with some 16,000 troops and citizens running for the safety of the garrison 90 miles away. A week later one horseman stumbled into camp - he was the lone survivor.

In 1979 the Soviet army poured across the Afghanistan border. Ten years later 14,500 Soviets and a million Afghans were dead and not much was settled.

Please also check out some protest/war topic songs by my "Macjammer" friends Alimar (Is There Any Real Peace Anymore?), Peter Greenstone (Justify This), and Snowdragon (God Didn't Tell You).