Sending them to Afghanistan was the correct choice. Canadian Special Forces with their American comrades successfully cleared the Taliban out of the Tora Bora Mountains and regular troops then took part in rebuilding and security operations, not combat. Things started to go wrong when Paul Martin vacillated too long and allowed our troops to be sent to Kandahar. Harper refused to withdraw our troops when casualties started to mount and it became clear that it was a hopeless mission, in fact he escalated our troops into increasingly dangerous combat roles.