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what is national security? three clearer pillars

Contributor: 1311

Date: 2003-04-13 18:35:26


I completely agree with your sentiment that the 'pillars' are too vague. Your analogy is quite excellent in relation to Pillar 2, thank you for sharing it. I think that more elaboration needs to be done on the other two as well.

For the first pillar, we ought to say what the lengths are that we are willing to take to protect national security. I would argue that the doctrine should take the form of commitment to self-defence, and a rejection of Bushian "preventative strikes".

And the values and culture of Canadians needs to be elaborated on. This would probably involve humanism and multiculturalism.

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