>>>Who told you I support or justify Canada's military operations anywhere? I have no influence over it... (unlike U.S. but that is another topic). In fact, I do not support any countries military operations outside their own territory (I support the military as a defensive force), much less to "protect business interests abroad"
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>>>In your case you are justifying U.S. military operations to protect "business interests outside the U.S", and my question was pretty simple.
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>>As a Dutch I would strongly disagree on that. Without the Canadian, British and Americans my primary language would be German in stead of Dutch and not a single Jew would been left on the European continent. Without allied intervention half of the African continent would have been slaughtered in the genocide of the 90's (hutsi's, tutsi's) and a lot of American oil business would have been confiscated by the Iraqi's.
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>>Most likely the rest of the world would then have been communist and you'd been speaking Russian in stead of English.
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>>As dirty foreign intervention can be, sometimes it is utterly necessary.
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>Hugo said that he'd support using the military as a defensive force and I agree with him.
>The US was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the US.
>Regarding the Russians.. they were a key ally.
>This is a fascinating read: "The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad." by Harrison Salisbury.
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>The point is that the US and Canada have not been attacked by any country since then and therefore the justification for projecting force in other countries is non-existent.

What about 9/11 ?