LETTER: Our soldiers died for worse than nothing

Hey, Mayor Hobbs, the real story about Canada’s Afghanistan debacle needs to be finally told.

It is al-Qaeda which reaped the true benefits of Canadian (and American) military involvement in this land, long labeled by historians as the, “Graveyard of Empires.” After all, the Soviet and British empires fell into and nearly got consumed by war in Afghanistan---Afghanistan, the mother of all quagmires.

The truth is that al-Qaeda, whose presence spanned many Islamic countries, little required Afghanistan as a launching pad for its war against the West-----as our military has always tried to claim (a claim easily debunked).

On the other hand, Al-Qaeda had aimed to trap the west in an Afghanistan made-to-order quagmire to weaken the West and radicalize Islamic based resistance worldwide.

For Moscow's decade-long and self-destructive occupation of Afghanistan a decade earlier, had persuaded bin-Laden that the U.S could be lured here and trapped in the same way.

Our incompetent and brain-dead military brass should have listened when bin-Laden stated in a 2004 video tape: "We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat in a war of attrition...We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."

Syed Saleem Shahzad 's book, "Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban," (published on May 24 and just three days before the author was found dead) tells the same story about how al-Qaeda had hoped 9/11 would bait the U.S and its allies into countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. His book reveals the true nature of Canada's role in Afghanistan as the willing dupe for al-Qaeda's quagmire trap.

A Pakistani investigative journalist, the late Syed Saleem Shahzad often wrote for leading European and Asian media. But this writer also had close connections with al-Qaeda's insiders and leaders.

On the borderline of treason and aided by our mainline media, our political leadership in Canada has long filled the role of bin-Laden's stupidly unwitting (and witless) allies.

Indeed, one could argue compellingly that Canada sent its young soldiers to die for a lost cause far away from home.

But the true story is really a lot worse than that. Al-Qaeda used our soldiers and military presence in Afghanistan to help weaken and defeat us, having known all along that Afghanistan didn’t carry one tiny bit of strategic potential for al-Qaeda.

And our mainline media (outlets like the Chronicle Journal) did everything it could to stifle the timely warnings from well informed citizens.

As well, some our treasonous political leadership likely went along with the Islamist scam to pad their own careers.