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Article: Briefing on the situation in Afghanistan.(military operations and national security)
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- Ploughshares Monitor
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- December 22, 2006
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A version of this article was presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Ottawa on November 8.
Introduction: Debating Afghanistan
Canadians are deeply ambivalent about Canada's role in Afghanistan. It is appropriate for Canadians to submit the decisions and political priorities that send soldiers abroad and into harm's way to serious and ongoing questioning. It is also appropriate for criticism to extend to the military leadership that commands and directs those military operations broad, but we understand such criticism to be in the context of deep respect for and honouring of the ...