Further to this post,

Why the Globe and Mail is not a newspaper, Part 2 (Congo section)

Milnews.ca picks up on Mr York’s continuing quixotic quest to get more Canadian troops committed to the heart of darkness (remember that he’s supposed to be a reporter):

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The Globe & Mail‘s Geoffrey York (AGAIN) flogging his favourite question:  why isn’t Canada helping the Congo? “It has become a grim Christmas ritual: hundreds of innocent civilians massacred in remote corners of Africa by the Lord’s Resistance Army, one of the world’s cruellest and bloodiest guerrilla forces.  Now, fearing a Christmas attack for the third consecutive year, the United Nations is mobilizing 900 peacekeepers to protect villages in Congo, and the United States has promised its own action against the LRA.  But activists are calling for a much stronger response to prevent another wave of gruesome attacks by LRA fighters…the CF already HAS a presence in Democratic Republic of Congo.  This isn’t the first time he’s asked for this – more here on his last call in August [October actually] for Canada to do more there.  Also, more on Canada’s national interests (or lack thereof?) in Congo at Army.ca here…

Plus from Mr York’s “story” in which his, er, leanings are clearly revealed:

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The LRA has emerged as a classic test of the “right [responsibility actually] to protect” doctrine, championed by former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy and others. The concept of “right to protect” suggests that the international community has the right to intervene in sovereign states to prevent atrocities and protect civilians. Canada took a leading role in pushing the concept and getting it adopted at a world summit in 2005 after the furor over the UN’s failure to act during massacres in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990s. But the concept was dropped when Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006 [emphasis added].

Supporters of the “right to protect” concept argue that Canada should do more to pursue the LRA, perhaps by contributing more troops to the UN mission in Congo, where the past two Christmas attacks took place, or by putting pressure on countries such as Sudan that are suspected of giving covert shelter to the LRA…

Right. A bit of that irresistible Canadian pressure and all will be well. Sure. Hurl. Earlier on Mr York’s undoubted heroes and R2P:

There’s a responsibility to protect us from Pink Lloyd and Soft Rock

Mark
Ottawa