Ms. Livingstone, you started by saying this isn't my father's world. My father's world was the beaches of Normandy and the Battle of the Falaise Gap and Caen and Holland. That was his world. His world was not peacekeeping. We went through peacekeeping, and now we've directed our military to one major operation, which is Afghanistan.
Although the UN has tried to reform itself in terms of the nature of peacekeeping operations, one is forced to ask the question of whether peacekeeping is realistic given the state of affairs in the world today, the various non-state actors, the role of international terrorism, etc., and given that we are terribly inconsistent in international foreign policy. I mean, we were very tough in the 1980s on South Africa because of apartheid, and yet we are hypocritical on Zimbabwe, and hypocritical on Burma, and dealing with the Chinese.
If we accept the fact that we're totally inconsistent, both us and everybody else, the question goes back to the initial question I asked about the national interest. What is in our interest in order to move forward if in fact the nature of peacekeeping, which I would suggest is really peace enforcement, is the nature of the day? Maybe we are going to go back to our traditional role as a nation, which is what my father's world was.