Former former Chief of staff of the defence of the Canada, said he is "surprised" by the lack of debate on the conflict in Libya during an election campaign "boring".
Rick Hillier, the former franc Chief of the Canadian military, said in an interview with the Radio of the CBC The Current it finds this mysterious that the role of the Canada in Libya is not under more scrutinyespecially when voters go to the polls on May 2.
Hillier said that he would like to see a debate over where the positions of the parties to the conflict in the Libya arrive on the campaign trail.
"I am intrigued by the absolute absence of any discussion of the operations in Libya by the United Nations and NATO for the United Nations, which is inclusive of the Canada," said Hillier.
"I am just absolutely mystified.". We are two weeks in an election campaign, it is the most boring thing that I've ever seen in my life and it would be one of the issues that could brighten it just a little bit. ?
The Canada hired six CF-18 to join an international effort to enforce a resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations that seeks to prevent violence by forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi against rebels and civilians.
Hillier said the interview of the no-fly zone on the Libya is a measure of half and that it protects the people on the ground.
The retired General, said that there is very little clarity on the mission in Libya. Hillier said, in his view, history has shown that the missions of the air have never worked.
"You have always to have a combination of actions." "Therefore, if you cannot completely protect the people that you said that you want to protect - and there are also a few issues it - keeping the forces of Gaddafi from them, then the only alternative in my view is to delete Gaddafi" said hillier.
"And if you are not going to do and that you cannot protect the people that you said because it is still in power, then really, what you do?" It is half-measures and which causes me bothers when people die. ?
The retired General, said that the air mission could be an expensive proposition, in the long term for the international community.
He said Kadhafi best strategy can be simply wait on NATO forces.
The absence of parliamentary control over the mission in the long term of the Canada in Libya will contrast of role in Afghanistan, a mission which Hillier has led in his time: the Chief of staff of the defence of the country.
"He did not arrive during the election campaign whatsoever." "We are at war, we have done this in Afghanistan, we had huge discussion, huge amounts of discussion on the mission in Afghanistan, including parliamentary debates," Hillier said.
"Here in the Canada now it is really silent on what is happening in Libya and it's strange for me personally."
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