Canada and "peacekeeping"

Jack Granatstein sums things up nicely with a bit of wit:

Peacekeeping if necessary, but not necessarily peacekeeping

If one reads Mr Granatstein carefully, the occasions on which we should take part in UN-run peacekeeping seem, er, necessarily quite limited. But to require "...a clear exit strategy or a withdrawal date stated in advance..." is simply not realistic (see Afstan for this point more generally about military operations). Earlier:

UN peackeeping ain't necessarily what we crack it up to be/Update: "Why trade Kandahar for Kinshasa?"

We didn't, thankfully.

Predate: See also:

"After Afghanistan: Peacekeepers or War makers?"