Foreign Policy Dominates Dion Visit
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"... We are, in the eyes of the Taliban, in a window of extreme vulnerability," he said at a defence conference. "And the longer we go without that clarity, with the issue in doubt, the more the Taliban will target us as a perceived weak link. I'm not going to stand here and tell you that the suicide bombings of this past week have been related to the debate back here in Canada. But I also cannot stand here and say that they are not."
"I would prefer not to have Afghanistan as a trigger for an election for the very reason the general mentioned," said [Dion]. "But a debate is unavoidable because we are a pluralist democracy and we are fighting to make sure that Afghanistan one day, too, will be a pluralist democracy."See the full content of this document
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Foreign Policy Dominates Dion Visit
By Mary Agnes Welch
CANADA'S foreign policy predicaments in Kosovo, Darfur and Afghanistan dominated Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's pit ...See the full content of this document
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