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La réussite de l’OTAN en Libye
- October 31, 2011
Cet article a originalement paru en anglais dans le blogue du Conseil International du Canada : opencanada.org. L’opération de l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) en Libye prend officiellement fin à minuit aujourd’hui. En fin de compte, ses aéronefs ont effectué quasiment 10 000 missions de frappe échelonnées sur sept mois. Lorsque la mission a débuté,
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NATO’s Success in Libya
- Analysis
- October 31, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. NATO’s operation in Libya formally ends at midnight today. All told, its aircraft conducted almost 10,000 strike missions over 7 months. When the mission began, many commentators warned that the intervention would result in a quagmire that might draw western forces into another endless,
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Run Towards War with Iran
- Analysis
- October 30, 2011
In the wake of the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, the predictable chorus of right-wingers has come forward to promote one of their favourite causes: the idea of an attack on Iran. Not surprisingly, the idea of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities features highly in all of this. Many of those who
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Libya and Canada’s Political Influence: A Different Perspective
- Analysis
- October 28, 2011
by Philippe Lagassé Did Canada play a critical political role in relation to the Libya intervention? My colleague Roland Paris is skeptical. In an earlier post on this blog, he points out that Canada’s political influence was secondary at best, since the Canadian government lost a bid to have a seat on the United Nations
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