Pax Christi officials discuss Canadian involvement in Afghanistan

Published: 2008-03-20

TORONTO (CNS) -- U.S. and Canadian Pax Christi officials said Canada needs a policy that will promote peace in Afghanistan after Canadian lawmakers extended Canada's military mission in Afghanistan. Johnny Zokovitch, spokesman for Pax Christi USA, said extending Canada's military mission in Afghanistan "is not going to solve anything." Pax Christi USA is the national affiliate of the international Catholic peace movement. "That country has been brutalized for the better part of half a century. To continue to militarize the situation there, and to increase and keep looking for military solutions in a country that's been looking for military solutions for 50 years -- it's counterproductive," he said. U.S. President George W. Bush's war on terror shows "there are not military solutions to the kind of problems they're (Bush administration) chasing -- whether it's in Afghanistan or in Iraq," said Zokovitch.

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