French Armed Forces personnel load belongings of evacuees onto a plane at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 23, 2023. French Armed Forces via AP
Flying low over the desert at night, their helicopters’ lights out, U.S. Navy Seals zipped in and out of Khartoum on April 23 to safely extricate their diplomats from a country on the edge of destruction.
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Peter Menzies is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an award winning journalist, and former vice-chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.