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The quotation on the right is from a pro-military U.S. website. Canada, it says, uses these weapons as an “effective negotiating tool”!
 
A "negotiating tool"?

Yes. “When discussing relationships” with local elders, Canadian troops demonstrate their firepower by blowing up a nearby hillside or farmer's field

 
The article concludes:

Afghans understand that sort of thing.”

 
Well, yes, most people do!

It’s called a death threat!

 
Does this sound like a peacekeeping operation to you?

Are these the weapons of peacekeepers?