Afghanistan’s fate was there to see, but no one bothered to look

For those looking to understand just how the Canadian government could have been so wrong about our involvement in Afghanistan, we need to look at the self-delusion of the key players.

Then-Canadian ambassador Chris Alexander’s inaccurate view that Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum was a remnant of Afghanistan’s past revealed just how little the youthful ambassador grasped the complexity of the Afghan political landscape, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 6, 2021

OTTAWA—Now that the last U.S. air force plane has departed the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul, western analysts and pundits remain shell shocked at the Taliban’s lightning overthrow of the Afghan regime. More accurately, military experts are wondering how the Afghan security force,...

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