I would return to what I said earlier, that we need to understand what our national interest is and then relate the deployment to our national interest, not to something that a so-called international community decides, unless what they decide is in our national interest, which it often is. Then we should make sure we have the capabilities to do it reasonably and with reasonable prudence. Most often, military operations that I've been involved in planning have, at the end of the day, come down to just those things. But it sometimes surprises prime ministers, and maybe even defence ministers, to find out that when they say, “Let's go to Zaire”, we don't have anything to go to Zaire.
On May 6th, 2010. See this statement in context.