October 28th, 2006
The main elements of a satisfactory end to the North Korean nuclear crisis have been in place for more than a decade. North Korea receives economic assistance, especially energy assistance such as fuel oil or electricity. Nuclear supplier states promise to explore assisting it in building a light water nuclear power plant. North Korea’s sovereignty […]
Read MoreOctober 17th, 2006
With Canada in a sustained ground war for the first time since Korea, it is not surprising that the debate over our role in Afghanistan has become thoroughly polarized. The Prime Minister leads the charge for staying the course. Canada is at war, he says, and we don’t cut and run – we will stay […]
Read MoreOctober 12th, 2006
At least one western constituency is celebrating Kim Jong-il’s nuclear test – the folks who toil in the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the beltway publicists who promote their cause in the public square. The morning after the test, David Frum, the former Bush speech writer and current fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, […]
Read MoreSeptember 27th, 2006
When Prime Minister Harper told the Economic Club of New York (Sept. 20/06)[i] that “Canada intends to be a player” in international peace and security efforts, he quickly turned to what was of more interest to his audience, and of greater concern to his government, namely security arrangements in North America. He noted the recent […]
Read MoreSeptember 13th, 2006
Talking to the Taliban For a state to negotiate with its bitter enemies is hardly a new concept, but when that was recently suggested for Afghanistan and the Taliban, commentators from Rex Murphy[i]to theWestern Standard[ii]managed only to ridicule the idea. The Globe and Mail editorialized that “if there were a realistic prospect that all sides […]
Read MoreSeptember 12th, 2006
Some may regard a United Nations Charter call for the demilitarization of security as having about as much impact on international peace and security as would a Canadian call for the abolition of winter on the weather in January. But the framers of the Charter were not afraid of bold visions, so in Article 26 […]
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