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Title: Crew of HMCS Preserver Credited With Helping In Drug Bust
Category: Military
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2013-10-07 22:37:28
Canadian

[saturn_656]

The forces of evil strike again. /sarcasm

[Curtman]

$1:

Canada has contributed naval and air assets to counter illicit trafficking operations since 2006.

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

We have treaty obligations ... we're part of multilateral agreements ... that lead us to patrolling for pirates, drug smuggling and, constantly, we are included in a standing fleet that patrols the Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea that has been there since the First Gulf War. Each one of these is not productive enough on it's own to stand up to the straight scrutiny of cost of mission against, say, cost of drugs destroyed. It is our obligation as a citizen nation of the World to participate in these activities. Our diplomatic footprint has diminished greatly since we stopped our peacekeepinmg missions. I dare say that it would evaporate completely if we stopped things like drug interdiction patrols. Yes, it doesn't appear to be cost effective but we are citizens of this planet.

Were these treaties just signed in 2006?

There has to be a way to spend our military resources that can do some good for someone.

[Jabberwalker]

$1:

There has to be a way to spend our military resources that can do some good for someone.

Well, you can do it the traditional Liberal way by anchoring them permanently at the jetty and letting them rust, then letting another power patrol and defend our supposed shorelines.

[Curtman]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

$1:

There has to be a way to spend our military resources that can do some good for someone.

Well, you can do it the traditiol Liberal way by anchoring them permanently at the jetty and letting them rust, then letting another power patrol and defend our supposed shorelines.

With the same result, nothing?

I'll go with the cheaper option if there's nothing better to do.

[GreenTiger]

Bravo Canada, Merci

[OnTheIce]

Curtman Curtman:

There has to be a way to spend our military resources that can do some good for someone.

Ah yes....because drug enforcement is a waste of money...yet you're all about stopping gangs and cartels. Irony.

[QBall]

Nice to read a story about the tankers that didn't involve the words "Leak" "Crash" "Refit" "Obsolete" or "Dangerous" in the headline.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

Bravo Canada, Merci

Agreed! Kudos to the good ship Preserver and her crew! And kudos to our American Coast Guard friends as well!



-J.

[Gunnair]

QBall QBall:

Nice to read a story about the tankers that didn't involve the words "Leak" "Crash" "Refit" "Obsolete" or "Dangerous" in the headline.

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