Our failing approach to Afghanistan

Canada and NATO should shift their efforts from short-term security stabilization and humanitarian aid to building independent Afghan security organs.
Last month’s bombing in Kabul slaughtered dozens of people, including one of my former bodyguards, Ehsanullah Momand, who was part of my close protection detail in 2011. A capable and witty English-speaking father of three young children, his killing demonstrates once again that Western efforts to...

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