KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan - Canada has come closer to working out an effective relationship between soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan than any other country in the world, according to a U.S. diplomat.

Bill Harris, the top U.S. diplomat in southern Afghanistan, believes that ‘people will write dissertations’ one day about a Canadian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team he describes as a ‘wildly successful … irregular warfare unit.’

‘We honestly could not have grown as fast or as easily and come up to the level of effectiveness we currently perform at (if it had been) with any other country than Canada,’ said Harris, a U.S. diplomat with three decades of experience who is a close associate of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan

‘General Petraeus loves this PRT,