2. ―"Peacekeeping is the ultimate Canadian endeavour. Not just
because it is noble and selfless and nice, but because it is such a
non-solution.
Rather than confront a problem head on, you diffuse it by creating
separate solitudes, by living parallel lives, by maintaining duality
and by limiting contact. Sound familiar? It should. It is the very
blueprint of our nation. And peacekeeping is simply Canada
projected outward onto the world.
In spite of this, perhaps even because of this, peacekeeping is
heroic. It is such a lost cause, you have to admire the men and
women who are giving it everything they have - up to and including
their lives.‖
– Will Ferguson, Why I Hate Canadians

5. ― Justice will not come to Athens until
those who are not injured are as
indignant as those who are.‖
– Thucydides

8. UN Security Council Resolution 2098, re MONUSCO, Congo
"The intervention brigade will carry out targeted offensive
operations, with or without the Congolese national army, against
armed groups that threaten peace in the eastern part of DRC – a
region that is prone to cycles of violence and consequent
humanitarian suffering.
The objectives of the new force – which will be based in North
Kivu province in eastern DRC and total 3,069 peacekeepers –
are to neutralize armed groups, reduce the threat they posed to
State authority and civilian security and make space for
stabilization activities."
– UN News Centre

12. ―One must always have in mind one simple fact
— there is no literate population in the world that
is poor, and there is no illiterate population that
is anything but poor."
– John Kenneth Galbraith

13. Social values in Afghanistan
%92
"Husband has the right to hit or beat his wife..."
%78
"...If she goes out without telling him"
%76
"...If she neglects the children"
%63
"...If she argues with him"
%61
"...If she wears immodest clothing"
%46
"...If she refuses sex"
%31
"...If she burns the food"
Source:
UNICEF

14. – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, March 10, 1975

15. ― A people who make a sharp distinction between
their warriors and their scholars will have fools for
generals and cowards for politicians.‖
– Thucydides

18. ―Type a quote here.‖
–Johnny Appleseed

20. "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the
terrorism of the rich.‖
- Sir Peter Ustinov
―We have lost control of the sea to a nation without a navy,
using obsolete weapons, laid by ships in use at the time of
Jesus Christ."
- Adm. AE Smith USN, Wonsan Korea1950

23. ―Type a quote here.‖
–Johnny Appleseed

26. ―We have moved our troops out of Eastern
Europe and got rid of heavy arms in Europe, in
general. What did we get in return?
A [U.S.] base in Romania where we are now, a
[U.S.] base in Bulgaria and [anti-missile
defense] bases in Poland and the Czech
Republic,‖ he said. ―Why don’t we talk about this
in the open, honestly and directly with all our
cards laid out on the table?‖
– Vladimir Putin, 2008

27. ―"Fights would not last if one side only were wrong."
– La Rochefoucauld”

31. – Daniel Patrick Moynehan

32. Reading List
•
Will Ferguson, Why I Hate Canadians
•
Carol Off, The Lion, The Fox, and The Eagle
•
Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World
•
Misha Glenny, McMafia
•
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
•
Bruce Lawrence (Ed.) Messages To The World
•
McKinnon, The New Cold War
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Janice Gross Stein & Eugene Lang, The Unexpected War
•
Andrew Cohen, While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
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F. de Pierrebourg & M. Juneau Katsuya, Nest of Spies
•
A. Mandel-Campbell, Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson

33. ―One who knows and knows that he knows... His horse of
wisdom will reach the skies. One who knows, but doesn't
know that he knows... He is fast asleep, so you should wake
him up! One who doesn't know, but knows that he doesn't
know... His limping mule will eventually get him home. One
who doesn't know and doesn't know that he doesn't know...
He will be eternally lost in his hopeless oblivion!"
- Ibn Yamin (1286)
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