That's hard to say. For Canadians...well, the Americans will protect us, so I guess we don't have to worry about it too much.
Maybe we don't want to make a contribution to the alliances we signed on for. Maybe we don't want to be involved in the responsibility to protect. Maybe we don't want to be part of the United Nations peacekeeping missions.
It just occurs to me...and one of my students said it the other day. She said, “I don't understand. This is a UN mission sponsored by the UN, voted by the Security Council. It's a rightful mission. The people of Afghanistan asked us to be there. We're not contributing a great deal, being a country of 32 million people and a G-8 leader. If this isn't a mission that Canadians can back, I guess there isn't anything we'll do.”
And I don't have the answer to that question either.