text: In all my years, I have seen the Canadian government shop for all sorts of foolish things, but I have never seen them shop so hard for a dangerous place to put our armed force for no particular reason.  All this just to live in the mystical world of the 1970s (I lived through them, and they weren't so great - soaring deficits and debts, soaring interest rates, rising unemployment).  And this is based on a really dumb, among others, of off-the-cuff remark by our now PM to bring back peace keeping.  
  May god help our soldiers.