CBC News - Money - Economically speaking, it's time to invade Eritrea

CBC News - Money - Economically speaking, it's time to invade Eritrea

Maybe it is time for the rest of the world to follow Canada's lead and pull out of Afghanistan. Then we can all invade some place equally needy like Eritrea. It only makes economic sense.

The idea struck me the other morning when I heard my old friend from Hong Kong days, Adrian Edwards, on the radio announcing that the UN was evacuating 600 of its foreign nationals from Kabul.

Adrian has worked in some the world's most exotic locations as a correspondent and then as a UN official. He is not easily moved...