Overseas military deployment and terrorism: a mixed bag

The use of the military to engage terrorists and terrorist groups around the world is both a necessary strategy and yet at the same time one that makes our terrorist problem worse.

The last Canadian troops involved in a NATO military training mission board a U.S. Chinook helicopter in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2014.DND photograph by Cplc Patrick Blanchard

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

November 7, 2017

I suppose that in many ways none of this should be unexpected. Its obviousness does not make it right, however. There are lots of things that we do not question that are nevertheless the wrong way of looking at things. I am referring here to the belief that we are at ‘war with terrorism’. The p...

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