Never found a bad US idea he didn't like
This article in the Globe and Mail is more interesting for what it says about how the Harper government operates than for what it says about detainees and Afghanistan. If I read this right Harper has gone the American route of removing the diplomats from diplomacy and giving control of key aspects of foreign policy to DND and the generals. We all know how well that strategy has served the US! Converting the armed forces into the uniformed wing of the Conservative Party is a fundamentally anti-democratic strategy and entirely contrary to Canadian political tradition.