The United Nations asked Canada to lead the UN mission in the Congo after we are finished in Afghanistan next year, and we have declined. I am assuming that the UN officials responsible for choosing to ask Canada do not watch our parliament's Question Period and did not consult Ujjal Dosangh on the conduct of our troops in the field. If they did, they would have had grounds to suspect that our military are marauding war criminals who will deliberately send innocent Congolese farmers to be tortured.
Personally I wish the people of the Congo all the best, but I lost respect for the UN mission in that country when they botched that election. I am not interested in Canada taking command of that mission, especially when we are going to need military resources for our aid work in Haiti. Some day when I'm rich and famous, I would love to be able to visit the Congo and go into the jungle searching for man eating apes and the lost mines of King Soloman. I would even invite Laura Linney and Tim Curry. I support an international military presence in the Congo, but now is not a good time for Canada to take that responsibility. We have other responsibilities.
I started a poll on this yesterday, and thus far the response is overwhelming. There is no appetite to jump into the Congo when we complete combat operations in Afghanistan.
Do you think that Canada should send a large peacekeeping force to the Congo?
No (96%)
Yes (2%)
Undecided (1%)
Paul Dewar, NDP and the Bloc are free to join the U.N. mission and help out.
ReplyDeleteThey never (voted) supported the mission in Afghanistan and should not be trusted to keep the interests of our military ahead of their political agenda.
Right on CS.
ReplyDeleteI don't trust the opposition parties with our troops' lives, they so far are as merciless when berating and insulting our soldiers who are dying so that these infatile morons in the opposition and the lousey media can demonstrate whose side they protect and that ain't our soldiers nor the afghan people. Not by a lonnnnng shot.
Why on earth would anyone even consider sending our troops to the Congo? We've had our stint as sitting ducks in Rwanda where a whole herd of U.N. bureaucrats, lounging in their luxurious villas in Switzerland played God with the lives on the Rwandans and then tried to dump the whole thing in the laps of our hamstrung troops. When General Schwartzkopf led the mission in Kuwait he made it plain that he would only take on the task if he had the manpower, materiel,and most importantly, the authority to run the operation with the intent of winning. The Weeping Willies at the U.N. would never abide this; how would they be able to manage things so that they could make a buck out of it. Let the military midgets at the U.N. extricate themselves from this mess. They've been running it for years with only mounting casualties and genocidal murders to show for it. They just want another patsy to pin the blame on.
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