Well, don't that beat all?

Stunning news from Canwest News:

The Canadian Forces will continue to play an active role in world hot spots even after troops are withdrawn from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 2011, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says...

The story naturally trots out the hardy perennial alternative missions to Afstan, without any indication of how realistic they might be:

Canada has been criticized for focusing all of its military efforts on Afghanistan at the expense of other world crises zones, particularly in Africa, where ongoing violence in the Darfur region of the Sudan and in the eastern Congo has demanded attention...

Lots of attention, sure. But no Western country is going to send any serious number of troops to Congo, and Sudan simply won't voluntarily allow in any Western contributions to the hybrid AU/UN Darfur force that might help make that force effective in a real way (here's the latest on UNAMID). So, is invasion of Sudan the answer?

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The unfathomable lightness of UN-run peacekeeping