Official inquiry needed to avoid repeat of Afghan failure

Tracking the mental health of veterans is a good first step, but an investigation into how Canada ended up in the Afghanistan theatre would be more effective, says Scott Taylor.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance, left, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan and parliamentary secretary Sherry Romanado unveiled a suicide prevention strategy in Ottawa on Oct. 5.
OTTAWA—There were news stories out of Afghanistan last week detailing how the United States is expanding and entrenching the so-called Green Zone in the centre of Kabul. An ambitious two-year construction project will bring together currently isolated outlying facilities into one massive protecte...

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