Killing the peace-keeping myth: Canadian Forces on the road to Kandahar

The prevailing image of Canadian military interventions as benevolent, or at least neutral, though, should have been shattered any number of years ago as in Vietnam when it produced Agent Orange and sprayed it on its own unwitting soldiers at CFB Gagetown, or in Somalia, or in Iraq during the Gulf War and the subsequent sanctions regime. But this Canadian myth has proved stubborn. Finally, though, in this summer of 2005, it appears that it may be being put to rest by the country’s top general.

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