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Canada, Afghanistan Doesn't Need Your Guilt Money

Peter Worthington | Posted 07.24.2012 | Canada Politics
Peter Worthington

Harper pledging $110 million in 2015 and beyond -- rather than soldiers training Afghanis -- is more like guilty conscience money than a lifeline for a secure future. So much has already been invested in Afghanistan during the past decade that the country cannot return into the primitive, isolated state it once was. The world doesn't work that way.

"Peace with Honour" is Another Way of Saying Defeat

Peter Worthington | Posted 03.20.2012 | Canada Politics
Peter Worthington

Regardless of one's outlook, it's pretty hard to see anything emerging from Afghanistan or the Middle East that doesn't represent defeat for America's foreign and military policy.