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Title: After Afghanistan, Canadian troops may provide peacekeeping in Congo‎
Category: Military
Posted By: tritium
Date: 2010-03-29 00:28:39
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

Fuck

[Canadian_Mind]

Whats the history behind Congo? From what little I know, the only way to make peace in that area is to wage the same kind of counter-insurgency gunfights that we currently are in Afghanistan.

Either way, I share Guy's sentiments on this issue.

[martin14]

please..... nooooooooooooooooooooo


We don't need to get involved in that rolling disaster.


CM, the area of Congo they are talking about is on the Rwanda border.

Doesn't that say enough ?

[Freakinoldguy]

WTF our Government would even consider sending troops back to the the anus of the dark continent is beyond me.

Maybe none of them are old enough to remember the unmitigated disaster that occured there in the 60's.

Either way, this is a bad bad bad idea.

"Edited for grammar."

[PolyPEI]

Canada has long been viewed as a peacekeeping nation. We have also been by the UN's side when they needed help. People in this country need to get off their damn high horses and realize that there's more to this world than Canada. We have a military for a reason.

[2Cdo]

PolyPEI PolyPEI:

Canada has long been viewed as a peacekeeping nation. We have also been by the UN's side when they needed help. People in this country need to get off their damn high horses and realize that there's more to this world than Canada. We have a military for a reason.

And we shouldn't waste our military trying to support another useless UN mission in Africa that will end in utter disaster. As others have put it, Africa is beyond hope.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Yeah, it's so darn hard to tell we're a peace keeping nation
Here's a list since we started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ca ... g_Missions

Then compare that to 2 offensive operations since and including Korea.
But there's a difference between peace keeping and trying to extinguish an oil tank fire by peeing on it.
Congo, and pretty much the rest of Africa for that matter, is an oil tank fire.
Unfortunately, too many people think peacekeeping includes the peacemaking process. That process involves combat, not referees.

[saturn_656]

PolyPEI PolyPEI:

Canada has long been viewed as a peacekeeping nation. We have also been by the UN's side when they needed help. People in this country need to get off their damn high horses and realize that there's more to this world than Canada. We have a military for a reason.

We have a military to defend Canada and her interests.

What interest do we have in the Congo?

[Canadian_Mind]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Yeah, it's so darn hard to tell we're a peace keeping nation
Here's a list since we started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ca ... g_Missions

Then compare that to 2 offensive operations since and including Korea.
But there's a difference between peace keeping and trying to extinguish an oil tank fire by peeing on it.
Congo, and pretty much the rest of Africa for that matter, is an oil tank fire.
Unfortunately, too many people think peacekeeping includes the peacemaking process. That process involves combat, not referees.

Sorta like what we're doing in Afghanistan? Going to Africa and doing some peacemaking ops will simply piss a whole new bunch of cats off.

[Beej]

PolyPEI PolyPEI:

Canada has long been viewed as a peacekeeping nation. We have also been by the UN's side when they needed help. People in this country need to get off their damn high horses and realize that there's more to this world than Canada. We have a military for a reason.

Get off our high horse? Peacekeeping put us on our high horse. If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say "We're not fighters we're peace keepers, unlike those warmongering Americans" I'd be a millionaire.

[Canadian_Mind]

Sadly wooden guns and rubber bullets aren't going to stop the invasion over our oil, water, [insert precious resource here] when it happens; be it 10 years, 100 years, or 1000 years. Might not even be an invasion, just the threat of an invasion we couldn't possibly fend off.

Point is; you want to have fighters there to deter, and if absolutely necessary, fight off people who wish to manipulate your country's interests for the sake of their own.

[martin14]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

PolyPEI PolyPEI:

Canada has long been viewed as a peacekeeping nation. We have also been by the UN's side when they needed help. People in this country need to get off their damn high horses and realize that there's more to this world than Canada. We have a military for a reason.

And we shouldn't waste our military trying to support another useless UN mission in Africa that will end in utter disaster. As others have put it, Africa is beyond hope.

Man speaks truth.


There is no peace in that region to keep.