She deserves a coherent and considered answer from the government:

Afghan rights leader urges Canada to stay
Leave training force behind after troop withdrawal: Samar

The chairwoman of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has asked the Harper government to leave some military trainers and mentors in the country after the scheduled withdrawal of the Canadian Armed Forces next year.

Dr. Sima Samar also said on Saturday she wants women at the negotiating table when the Afghanistan government embarks on reconciliation and reintegration efforts with the Taliban. She says she wants to ensure war criminals do not get an amnesty.

“A co-ordinated, enlightened group should stay behind in order to continue the training and capacity-building of Afghans, not only the training, but mentoring and evaluating to see that they do a good job,” Samar said in an interview…

…She has been in Ottawa for several days at the invitation of the Canadian Federation of University Women.

In a keynote after-dinner speech to federation members from across the country, Samar appealed to Canadians to stay engaged on the simple grounds of helping fellow humans in great need. She said some people are afraid they are imposing “Western values” on Afghanistan, especially when it comes to equality for women, when no such distinction should be made. “Excuse me, these are human values,” she said, winning applause. “These are universal values for all of us.”..

Samar, whose commission has been involved with the armed forces of Canada and several other countries in monitoring Taliban prisoners [more here], suggested several hundred Canadians be left in Kandahar to mentor and evaluate the Afghan army and police [there's no way they'll stay at Kandahar, but Kabul...]…

Meanwhile the US military seems to be thinking seriously about the role of Afgan women:

…
In the past year, Mr. Mortenson and his Central Asia Institute, responsible for the construction of more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, mostly for girls, have set up some three dozen meetings between General McChrystal or his senior staff members and village elders across Afghanistan.

The collaboration, which grew in part out of the popularity of “Three Cups of Tea” among military wives who told their husbands to read it, extends to the office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last summer, Admiral Mullen attended the opening of one of Mr. Mortenson’s schools in Pushghar, a remote village in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountains.

Mr. Mortenson — who for a time lived out of his car in Berkeley, Calif. — has also spoken at dozens of military bases, seen his book go on required reading lists for senior American military commanders and had lunch with Gen. David H. Petraeus, General McChrystal’s replacement. On Friday he was in Tampa to meet with Adm. Eric T. Olson, the officer in charge of the United States Special Operations Command.

Mr. Mortenson, 52, thinks there is no military solution in Afghanistan — he says the education of girls is the real long-term fix — so he has been startled by the Defense Department’s embrace…

Chad J. McNeeley/Department of Defense

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a school in Pushghar, Afghanistan, with Greg Mortenson, who wrote about his effort to build schools in “Three Cups of Tea.”

Plus a Canadian getting really out among the locals at Kandahar (good on the Toronto Star for the story, have a read about “Panjwaii Tim”):

Riding with ghosts
Meet ‘Team Canada’ — the last major aid group remaining in Kandahar takes a uniquely daring approach to the struggle for Afghanistan, operating almost invisibly on a mission to put tens of thousands of Afghans to work

More on “Team Canada” towards the end of this post at Free Range Intenational, an excellent blog.  And as for our government:

Who cares about the Afghan government? And strong horses?

Update: A post about things kinetic by Brian Platt at The Canada – Afghanistan Blog, note the final bit about our Griffons going gatling (system videos here):

The Situation In Kandahar

Upperdate: More from Matthew Fisher of Postmedia News:

New Afghan rules clarify when helicopters gunners can unleash ‘Allah’s breath of death’

And with the Dutch out, guess who’s taking the lead in Uruzgan province?

Mark
Ottawa