How can the loss of Canadian lives in Afghanistan be justified any longer?

In case you missed it, Afghanistan's president was quoted a few days ago as saying that if foreigners didn't stop their meddling in his country -- and he does mean "his" -- he might just join the Taliban. To which most of us have replied "Good. Go for it!"

Walt has been saying since the beginning of this blog that the war in Afghanistanis futile and the lives lost there wasted. "Call me Steve" Harper and his toadies and apologists keep saying that, no, we're Doing Good there...doing something important to preserve democracy (the election of Mr. Karzai being an example), end the oppression of women and generally make Afghanistan a Much Better Place than it has ever been. Which is rubbish, of course.

Now Mr. Harpoon rings another change on that same old tune. Mr. Krazee's remarks, he says, are "not helpful, and in the context of the dangerous work that our people are doing they are completely unacceptable to Canada and I'm sure the same is true for all of our allies."

Steve is right about the remarks being unhelpful. But, as Brian Topp points out in today's Globe & Mail, Harper stops short of doing anything beyond disparaging Karzai's threat [promise? ed.].

There is almost a full year left before Mr. Harper's promise to withdraw Canadian troops kicks in. Given Mr. Karzai's attitude, how can he possibly justify the loss of even one more life in that hellhole of a "country"?