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Canada's Role In The Afghanistan War Analysis
As many years have passed, everyone has looked at Canada as a peaceful country.
A country that doesn’t get involved in conflicts or wars, but always provided aid, assistance where and when needed. Even if Canada was not part of the conflict to lead to war, Canada always played an important role in discussions or mitigations of solutions to political conflicts in war situations. Canada has and is playing an important role in the Afghanistan war, conflicts between Israel and Palestine, and the Suez crisis. Canadas role in the Suez crisis was demonstrated by being a peacekeeper in assisting with ending the conflict. An example of such is by how a Canadian diplomat named Lester B Pearson had created the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)
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In 2007, 330 Canadians from Foreign affairs, Canadian International Development Agency, and the RCMP were sent to Afghanistan to help in the reconstruction of Afghanistan homes, there economy and medical aid to the wounded
(Geddes, 2007). In 2012 Prime Minister Steven harper at the NATO summit in Chicago announced many Canadian soldiers would stay in Afghanistan to help train and mentor the
Afghan national army for any other complications that may occur (Rilley 2016). If it wasn’t for Canada I dint know how Afghanistan would have been helped and till today people from Afghanistan appreciate what we did for them.
The Suez crisis, The Israel – Palestine conflict, and the Afghanistan war are only some of the conflicts and wars Canada had joined in a positive matter and its outcome has shown us how our country’s involvement provided positive changes within these unwanted political conflicts. If Canada had decided not to join as a peacekeeper what would some of the outcomes been? Would our international relationships have been affected and how? How would it have affected our citizens oversees and at home?

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