Afghanistan

Stephen Maher: There are ways Canada can help around the world. But we should recognize that we do not make good occupying soldiers and stop trying to do it.

Scott Gilmore: Trudeau went to Rideau Hall because he wants to be Prime Minister a little longer. If he wanted to really do something, he would have been in a crisis ops room.

Scott Gilmore: A mass rescue on that scale has been done before, and we owe it to those who believed and trusted us to do it again

Adnan R. Khan: The lessons from other countries that have had to confront mass graves are clear—shining a light into our darkest corners is the only way forward

Afghan human rights leader Dr. Sima Samar talks to Sally Armstrong about the Taliban, the peace process and the fight to save 20 years of progress in her country

Adnan R. Khan: The list of America’s unfinished business is long, and bloody. And it is growing longer with the plan to abandon Afghanistan in its time of need.

Adnan R. Khan: With the U.S. withdrawal looming, the Afghan government is attempting to curb women’s rights. Meanwhile, Canada is more interested in playing whack-a-mole with terrorism than doing the hard work of helping a country devastated by it

Scott Gilmore: The Afghanistan ’peace deal’ will see America cut and run. It is the least worst option for the U.S.—and a troubling end for Afghans

Scott Gilmore: For more than a decade we watched this main event get worse and knew we were losing. Yet in Ottawa it’s like it never happened.

Adnan R. Khan: Trump seemed to finally grasp what everyone in Afghanistan already knew: The Taliban can’t be trusted and are now intertwined with al Qaeda.