When a hockey rink gets more ink than a failed state
Reporters wrote reams on a hockey rink being repatriated from a Canadian base in Afghanistan, but there should be more attention on what’s become of the country since our soldiers left.

OTTAWA—On Dec. 27, about a dozen Canadian Embassy staff, including Ambassador Kenneth Neufeld, were brought from Kabul to Kandahar to play a ball hockey game.
This was the final game played at the Kandahar Airfield ball hockey rink before the U.S. army engineers began dismantling the boards and b...
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