Mustialways remember: I think I get what you are trying to suggest: that we should not dismiss taking on a mission just because there is a chance that Canadian soldiers might die. You didn't do a very good job of expressing yourself in English, but that seems to be the core of your argument.
Well...you're right-as far as that statement goes. We are soldiers, and risk-taking is part of the profession. In fact, we accept that the "unlimited liability" of what we do is the major thing that sets us apart from, say, the RCMP, or Blackwater, or others. And, so far, both as a military and as a country, we have proven that we are willing to accept various levels of risk at various times. If that were not true, we would never have been in places like Gulf War I , Yugo, Somalia, or Afghanistan.
But there is much more to what we do (and to what we expect from our Govt) than mere risk-taking. There is also risk assessment: how dangerous is it?;why is it dangerous?; is it worth the risk? What are the true chances of success if we take the risk? What is the difference between accepting a certain level of risk and throwing lives and money away in a hopeless cause? Don't confuse risk-assessment with cowardice or "cold feet".
If you read around on this site, you will see that a number of other posters have identified the problems associated with the idea of deploying a half-assed mission to Darfur, even assuming that an enabling UN resolution existed (or could get through Security Council), that a UN force could be assembled, and that we could generate, deploy, sustain, protect and recover a useful contingent. UN missions are (as any of us who have served on a few can tell you...) usually disorganized, ineffective shambles that violate most known military principles, thus not surprisingly producing sub-optimal results (to put it politely)
We are doing an important job in Afghanistan, and doing as well as we can. If we drift back to the bad old days of sending a few troops willy nilly, here and there, all over the world, we weaken our ability to do a good job properly in one place, by half-assing it everywhere.
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