"Afghanistan: mission possible"

Conference of Defence Associations' media round-up. On the other hand, from BruceR at Flit:

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On the home front...one of the strongest politician-defenders of the Canadian military ever has said enough's enough [more here]. That's significant. So as of today it's official: there's no one left in Canada who thinks this is likely to end well.

But one example of non-herd punditry is found in an odd place--from Raphael Alexander:

Toronto Star: More Like This Please

James Travers of the Toronto Star pens an uncommonly sensible piece about Afghanistan and the difficulty of seeing the forest for the trees...