Isn't it amazing how almost everything in modern politics can find its inspiration, or be reflected, in a Looney Tunes cartoon?

As the sequestration rock crashes into Congress, I couldn't help but picture Wile E Coyote whose complex, daring and ingenious schemes always backfire and leave him squashed flat.

With no disrespect intended to Canada's auditor general, the debate over the F-35 stealth fighter is starting to give me a headache.

What started as a well-meaning exercise in fiscal accountability has developed into almost a daily buzz saw of claims, accusations, innuendo, exaggeration, outright lies and verbal flatulence.

That's...

A line was crossed in the last few days, one from which there is no coming back. Those of us who've spent a lot of time in Afghanistan knew that line had been breached the moment we heard about Panjwaii.

There is no coming back from the...

Readers who usually tune in to my musings for some kind of insight about foreign wars and military matters might want to change the channel because there is something else I need to get off my chest today. It is about the crumbling of an empire. So, there is a...

You probably don't know his name and even if you did, it would have been tough to pronounce.

That is the strange thing about opaque wars like Afghanistan. We in the West often listen enraptured to "big" names; the generals and leaders whose influence, while undoubtedly profound, can pale in...

It was one of those moments that gets seared into your memory with the subtlety of a branding iron and could serve as a cautionary tale as the West tip toes towards the exit in Afghanistan.

I was standing in the marble, columned portico of the Kandahar governor's palace last...

MPs belonging to the House of Commons Special Committee on Afghanistan went to Kandahar halfway through 2010 like a group of wise men in cargo pants looking for a messiah. They wandered far and wide in search of something -- anything -- that would give this entire ruinous adventure some...

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's top commander attempted to bind fresh and old wounds on Saturday when he bid farewell to combat troops in Kandahar.

Gen. Walt Natynczyk, in his final address before the formal end of operations, urged returning soldiers to watch their "battle buddies" and...