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Written by Scott Taylor
In April I had the pleasure of sitting in as a guest host on CBC’s The Current radio talk show. One of the segments on that program featured Ted Barris and Janice Stein discussing their thoughts on how historians would define Canada’s military intervention in Afghanistan.
As Canada approaches the first decade milestone of our commitment to the campaign and the conclusion of our combat mission this July, it was noted that Canadian historians have already published a couple of dozen books and memoirs on the subject.
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Written by Scott Taylor
Following the barrage of contradictory stories emanating from the White House and Pentagon in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s execution, it would seem that the only straight-shooter in this whole affair was the Navy SEAL who put two bullets into the al-Qaeda leader’s head.
According to the initial version of events, bin Laden had been shot during a firefight with US Special Forces during a raid of his compound.
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The massive prison break in Kandahar on April 25 essentially put the boots to any last hopes of a successful NATO mission in Afghanistan. As straight-faced Afghan prison officials scratched their heads and pointed to the empty tunnel entrance, which apparently allowed at least 471 Taliban prisoners to escape, we are expected to believe their claim that this was not an inside job.
To back up that story, the Afghan guards stated that there was no need for the Taliban detainees to obtain the keys to their cells that night because it was common practice to leave all the cells open at night.
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Written by Scott Taylor
To date in the federal election campaign, there has been virtually no debate and little discussion pertaining to the ongoing military mission in Afghanistan. The major combat commitment is due to end this July, but the Canadian Army will continue to deploy up to 1,000 personnel to serve as trainers for the Afghan security forces until 2014.
When this three-year extension was first announced in November, the Harper government billed it as being a “behind-the-wire” training mission, and the speculation was that the majority of the Canadian troops deployed would be based at some major complex in the vicinity of Kabul.
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 As a regular patron of the same gym for the past few years, my vocation has become known to several of the full-time staff. As an admitted news junkie with constant access to cable TV, one employee in particular has a habit of greeting me with questions about world events.
For the longest time these questions were focused primarily on our troops in Afghanistan, with a routine query about when I would make my next foray to that war-ravaged country.
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