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Forgotten Wars
This one pretty much speaks for itself. How often do we hear about the troops in Afghanistan? How often do we hear about the troops in Kosovo?
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Combat Compromise
Canada sent troops to Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9-11. Since then, no one has really paid them much attention- what all the focus on Iraq and all. Recently, however, the “why are we in...
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Harper of Arabia
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been visiting the Canadian troops in Afghanistan this week. Despite some cries from the opposition parties, Harper continues to support the mission in A-stan, arguing...
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Jack the Peacemaker
New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton has recently begun calling for a complete withdrawal all Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Jack apparently believes that by serving there, Canadians are being...
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Is it done yet?
Canadian interest in the war in Afghanistan continues to decline. A recent poll suggests nearly 60% of the country favors withdrawing all of Canada’s 2,000-odd troops from that country by 2009 at the...
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Karzai’s Courtiers
In a rare piece of good news for the country, it was recently discovered that Afghanistan, far from being the useless sinkhole we all assumed, actually possesses some of the world’s largest untapped...
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Lackluster Leaks
Over 92,000 pages of classified US documents relating to the Afghanistan war were anonymously leaked onto the internet this weekend, via the infamous leaker website Wikileaks.org. The leaked papers...
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Trick or Trick with President Karzai
I can remember, not too long after 9-11, when the Taliban was overthrown and Hamid Karzai became the new president of Afghanistan. How much we all loved him! He seemed so calm and moderate and wise...
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Training day for Afghanistan
Going back on his previous promise that all Canadian troops would vacate the country by next year, Prime Minister Harper announced last week that the plans to keep a Canadian presence in Afghanistan...
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The decade that was and wasn’t
The other day, on a somewhat ghoulish whim, I decided to tour this cemetery near my house. My God. Have you been to one lately? Doe-eyed teddy bears and lawn flamingos. Sports pendants and Hotwheels...
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