Mali mission reminiscent of Afghanistan

The safe bet now is that Mali will be the ultimate destination for our blue-helmet offering. But if Canadian troops had no luck with nation-building in a divided Afghanistan, why would we do the same in the Sahara?

A rocket-hit container is pictured after an attack during which six peacekeepers from Guinea were killed and others injured at a UN peacekeeping camp in Kidal, Mali, on Feb. 13.UN photograph by Marco Dormino

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 7, 2016

OTTAWA—The military and Liberal government communications teams are in full spin to sell Canadians on an imminent peacekeeping mission in Africa. To date, the entire exercise has been a convoluted inversion of all basic principles concerning the implementation of a military deployment. The Liberal...

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