Hi, Guest
06-14-2006, 05:05 AM
NOS2Go4Me,Jun 13 2006, 02:42 PM Wrote:You can suggest all you like, but I have yet after almost 5 years to read the headlines "Afghanis have peace, peacekeepers come home" in the newspapers.To put things in perspective, Canadian troops have been part of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus since 1964 and have sustained 27 deaths in that time period.
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To this day the Turkish and the Greek Cypriots have moved no further than a ceasefire which is regularly broken. And although the prospects for peace haven't changed much in decades, there is slow movement in that direction and so the UN forces continue to be of great value there.
Cyprus and Afghanistan are obviously different - but the timelines for peace can be very long indeed - multi-generational even, and if we as Canadians are to help sustain the UN as a viable instrument of lawful international relations, we must continue to support UN missions - even if the role of "peacekeeper" is re-defined to include actively hunting groups like the Taliban.
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