You may have missed the articles posted on Free Republic regarding ship construction and the acquisition of Globemasters, C130s and Chinooks.
"Now, if we could only get the Canadians to fight someplace other than the hockey rink, they might actually be a force to be reckoned with.."
You had definitely missed the articles on the Canadian forces work in Kandahar, particularly in op Mountain Thrust now underway in which the Canadians are inflicting a hugely disproportionate butcher's bill upon the Taliban.
Canada has been in Afghanistan in several deployments since early 2002. The first casualties taken were in a fratricide episode at Tarnak Farm in April 2002 during a live fire exercise.
Our people have taken casualties in contact with the enemy since then but mostly they have been inflicting disproportionate casualties upon the Taliban.
You obviously missed the post above where I stated that I did not intend to denigrate or insult to bave Canucks in Afghanistan.