Just war? In Afghanistan, not so much

History has judged the American war in Vietnam as totally evil. The same judgment should be rendered on the Afghan war.

The last Canadians involved in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan board an American Chinook helicopter on March 12, 2014 in Kabul, Afghanistan.DND photograph by Cplc Patrick Blanchard

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

May 25, 2016

OTTAWA—Robert McNamara, the defence secretary for United States president John F. Kennedy, gave us one of the first Western military interventions after the Second World War. In a 2003 documentary, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, he provides introspection and r...

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