How many Canadians would be comfortable sending their sons or daughters to war in such circumstances?
We don’t have any polling data on whether Canadians would support joining the United States if it comes to war against Iran – but we can take an educated guess.
Reza Marashi, a well-respected U.S.-Iran analyst, quoted a number of unnamed U.S. officials on his Twitter feed. “We have no functioning national security decision-making process in place. We have no plan for what comes next,” Marashi credited one official as saying.After all NATO’s Article 5 collective defence clause commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state to be an attack against all of them. The military adviser to Iran Supreme Leader, Maj.
Given the commitment to Afghanistan and the weakness of the Canadian military, he said the Liberal government did not feel any push-back from the Bush Administration. “We didn’t pay the price on trade. We got more pressure from Tony Blair, who was four-square behind the U.S.” he said.
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