Nov. 28 - Kabul --

Nov. 28 - Kabul -- In accordance with NATO urging, Canada is looking at establishing provincial reconstruction teams which will involve Canada remaining involved in Afghanistan after the mandate is scheduled to end next August.

Canada has almost 2,000 soldiers committed to peace and security efforts in Kabul. And while no one believes Canadian Forces will leave Afghanistan in August when their one-year mandate expires, Leslie said the numbers will have to be cut.

That's where provincial reconstruction teams come in.

Defence Minister John McCallum visited a U.S. reconstruction team last week in Gardez, near Kabul.

"We have not decided yet, but based on what I saw ... at Gardez, I think they have done a very good job in terms of reconstruction, notably schools and wells and other activities," McCallum said.

These plans put the committment of NATO (and Canada) far above that of the UN, which is pulling out aid workers in the parts of the country that need them most. Does the UN understand that packing up and leaving as a response to terrorism is outright capitulation? Of course they do. They just don't care.

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