What to read about Canada and Afghanistan?

Prof. Barry Cooper prefers, I think, Christie Blatchford to Eugene Lang and Janice Stein:

...Where Stein and Lang tell the rather abstract story of a policy process as deeply flawed by hypocrisy as by ignorance, Blatchford tells of the personal side of war fighting...

If anyone on your Christmas list wonders what is going on in Afghanistan, get them Blatchford's Fifteen Days.

Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary