Mark from Zenpundit has an article about Google and Connectivity, Dr. B is keeping score with CAFTA, and now the Canadian Ministry of Defense lends a hand to the AU:
From CTV
Defence Minister Bill Graham announced Thursday Canada’s decision to send 105 armoured vehicles to Sudan, in support of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). … “They are what the African Union wanted. The African Union has the troops, and responsibility and the political desire to manage this crisis but it needs our help and this is a tangible and important piece of help we can send,” Graham told the media today in Montreal.
Nice to see the Core reaching out to the Gap, and more importantly delegating responsibility. It is also interesting to see Canada stepping up to some of the problems in the world (ie. Haiti, Afghanistan, and now Sudan). For the past year or two there has been a real debate about making Canada relevant again(?), and the Ministry of Defense has been succesfully doing its part (to the disdain of some, not to be mentioned here wink, wink!).
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IJ
July 29, 2005
5:16 pm
The article on TB's website warns that "pitched battles over control of critical assets (e.g., energy. . .), will increase in intensity". And on the subject of energy, a "book review":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805073132/nationbooks08/104-7663660-3461566 mentions TB.
>In many ways, his books complements the one by Thomas Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map," except that whereas Barnett says that the military must go to war to make unstable areas safe for America, Klare points out that a) we don't have enough guns or blood to stabilize a world that we antagonize every time we deploy into an "occupation" mode, and b) cheap oil is going to be very very expensive in terms of American blood on the floor.
Younghusband
July 29, 2005
6:17 pm
bq. "Japan to give Sudan 190 mil. yen of vehicles, mine detectors, tents":http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=344945
Japan will give a U.N. mission in Sudan materials worth 190 million yen including vehicles to help its peacekeeping operation starting there in November, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.
Japan will provide the U.N. Mission in Sudan with 27 four-wheel-drive motor vehicles, 60 landmine detectors and 20 large tents, they said.
IJ
July 29, 2005
6:40 pm