Canada Looks Back on Ten Years in Afghanistan

Canada is assessing ten years in Afghanistan:

"Whether the 10 years of fighting and dying in Afghanistan was worth the Canadian blood spilled and bullion spent remains in doubt because Afghanistan’s future is so uncertain.

Yet now is a time for assessment, even if the moment is not being officially acknowledged: It was 10 years ago this week that Canadian troops landed in Kandahar, battle-ready and girded for combat, the first time since Korea the nation had sent ground troops to war."

Read the rest of the article in "A decade after going to war in Afghanistan, the wins are fading", The Globe and Mail, February 5, 2012.