Paul Martin’s second-guessing on Afghanistan is a perfect example of why the ex-Liberal prime minister is no longer leading the country, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today.
Harper said it was Martin and his Liberals who committed Canadian troops to fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
“When you make those kinds of decisions as a prime minister, you have to be able to take responsibility for them and stick with them,” Harper said in Bucharest, where he is attending a meeting of francophone countries.
“The fact that Mr. Martin is unable to do that, in this and so many other cases, illustrates why he is no longer prime minister of our country.”
Martin told the Toronto Star in an interview this week that he doesn’t like the way the mission in Afghanistan is unfolding, saying the original aim of rebuilding the country has been obscured by increasingly intense fighting.
Thirty-six Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan.
“I’m the person who sent them there and I don’t back away from that one iota,” the former prime minister said. source
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