Churchill He Ain't

Stephen Harper, the dazzlingly eloquent PM of Canada, explains his modest country's modest goals in Afghanistan:

"We are not ever going to ever defeat the insurgency. Afghanistan has probably had -- [based on] my reading of history -- an insurgency forever of some kind ... We have to have an Afghan government that is capable of managing that insurgency and improving its own governance."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/22/canada.afghanistan/index.html