OTTAWA – It could very well be that 2014 is remembered as the year when Canada traded one shadow war for possibly two others.The flag was barely folded and put away in Kabul, marking a formal end to more than 12 years of counter-insurgency war against the ghostly Taliban, before CF-18s were dispatched to begin pounding extremist targets in Iraq.The summer offensive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida splinter group that brought its brutal caliphate to the gates of Baghdad, coincided with the under-cutting of Ukraine.The so-called “little green men” — Russian troops stripped of …read more
Source: National Newswatch
