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Proceeding contribution from Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 May 2011. It occurred during Debate on Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan

The parallel is Vietnam 1963, when several thousand CIA advisers descended on that country. That eventually turned out to be 500,000 US troops, 100,000 of whom died there. A million Vietnamese also died in that conflict. We should be slightly more careful, more sanguine and less gung-ho about the process. Turkey has tried to bring about a peace process, as has the African Union, but what hope is there for a peace process and a diplomatic settlement if the language coming from NATO and others is, ““We are going to win this conflict””? That is the subtext.

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Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
528 c103 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Deployment Development aid Democracy Human rights Foreign relations Politics and government Pakistan UN resolutions Afghanistan NATO Israel Civil disorder Palestine Syria Middle East Yemen Libya North Africa
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk