The editorial is right that "Secrecy and doublespeak have been the defining characteristics of the government’s disclosure of information, or lack thereof, about the Iraq campaign".

Indeed, this observation is applicable to almost everything this government does, especially "doublespeak" which stems from a longstanding Liberal trait known as "cognitive dissonance" whereby Liberals are able to support two diametrically opposite propositions, sometimes even within the same speech.

Inasmuch as the Trudeau Liberals have taken secrecy and doublespeak to new heights in parliament, refusing to provide anything but pre-scripted, boilerplate non-answers to even the simplest and most basic of questions, expect them to try to avoid any meaningful debate about post-ISIS state diplomatic and military policy going forward.  

It seems likely the battle for Raqqa will take at least the rest of this year.  

The opposition should use this time to force a serious debate on our role after Raqqa falls.