Questions linger after Afghans abandoned

Whose purposes did this war serve, and what lessons have we learned?

The last Canadians involved in the Nato training mission in Afghanistan board an American Chinook helicopter in Kabul on March 12, 2014. Canada and the United States' other allies are wearing part of the blame for the chaos in Afghanistan that was caused by the U.S. deal with the Taliban, writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of Canadian Armed Forces/Cpcl Patrick Blanchard

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

August 30, 2021

HALIFAX—History is rife with dark coincidence. None is darker than this one: Donald Rumsfeld, president Bush’s secretary of defence, was laid to rest in the same week that America made its disgraceful retreat from war-torn Afghanistan. Twenty years of meaningless carnage, ending in chaos and be...

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