We're still dying in Afghanistan
After 20 years of trying, I have failed to understand why my friends died in Afghanistan. Now I wonder what Canadians, too, are dying for.
Nikolai Lanine It was 'unpatriotic' to criticize the Soviet occupation in the '80s, says ex-Russian soldier NIKOLAI LANINE. Today, it's the same story in Canada I thought I had escaped my past, but Afghanistan caught up with me in Canada. Looking at the flag-draped casket of my wife's first cousin, Andrew Eykelenboom, a Canadian medic killed in Afghanistan, I was overwhelmed with feelings of...