Mr. Speaker, we are not against any new air strikes. Last week we said that we thought, and this was echoed by the French and the British Prime Ministers, that the air strikes had probably not been planned as well as they could have been.
Had we been given earlier notice, we could have taken the necessary steps to protect our soldiers. I raised this issue with the UN Secretary General who, to a certain extent, recognized the validity of my argument. I was pleased to hear the new French Prime Minister express the same point of view, yesterday, on French television.
A review of the situation is needed, but we cannot say that there will never be other air strikes because that would mean that, if we were attacked, we would not defend ourselves.