Afghanistan

As we approach the four-year anniversary of Jack Layton saying that really crazy thing , General David Petraeus speaks with Fox...

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The Defence Minister explains what he meant when he said the government was considering its options in Afghanistan.

There’s a lot of flexibility in "the letter of the motion"

Whatever the Foreign Affairs Minister said a month and a half ago in response to what the Defence Minister said then, here is what...

A plea for fleeing Afghanistan

So t hat Afghanistan cover created no small amount of debate in the office today, and opinions were divided to say the least. My...

How much does the Taliban pay for opium? How many insurgents are in jail?

I’m reading Thomas Barfield’s Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. A couple of chapters in, it’s the model of how to...

POTTER: "The conflict has clearly been going worse, for longer, than we’ve been led to believe"