[Newsbot]

Title: Canadian commander lays down the law at village shura
Category: Military
Posted By: Guy_Fawkes
Date: 2009-09-28 21:43:56
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

I can understand him being upset, I would be too, but it sounds like he went into the shura pissed. That is something that makes me pretty uneasy about him. Going into meetings with a cloud of anger overhead is not a good way to lead.

[gonavy47]

Sometimes it's a good thing to shake up the status quo.These people have to be held to their committment to co-operate with the military. In this case he got his message across pretty clearly, and got results.

[OldChum]

Yes for now but he may have lost an freind in the long run . And sometimes you can least afford that.

[martin14]

Depends how Afghan culture is setup for confrontations,
and of course what really happened at that meeting.


Stereotypes:

You can have a normal conversation with a German, and he will understand.

You have to yell at a Spanish or Italian before they recognize something is wrong.

You have to whip a Russian to get him moving.


Afghans ?? who knows.....

But lets face it, whats been done hasnt been working to our advantage,
so something needed to happen.

[bossdog]

A suspect was offered up 20 minutes after the meeting...something must have gotten through.

[OldChum]

Or was he just unlucky to be in the wrong spot can we trust these people .

[Canadian_Mind]

Someone probably handed him over after the meeting. Word gets out quicker in Afghanistan that in a high school clique.

While effective, this could be setting a very dangerous precedent.