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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Afghanistan: Many Questions, No Answers

In this short article, Ralph Surette, a Nova Scotia journalist living in Yarmouth County, asks some questions about Canada's role in Afghanistan.

He begins with: "What are we doing in Afghanistan? Do we know? Are we afraid to ask? The lack of public debate over this indicates that we are. It's not a good sign."

And referring to Gen. Rick Hillier's reasons of "we have to fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here", Surette goes on to say:
"These non-explanations about Afghanistan link up with another set of hanging questions: about our military build-up, in which our venerable peacekeeping role has been jettisoned (we're now 36th as a provider of troops to UN peacekeeping operations) in favour of aggressive combat missions integrated with the U.S. military."

He further asserts that we should "talk about this".

Read full article here.

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