Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith: In his long-awaited book about the Afghan war, Graeme Smith writes what others have long thought but rarely said out loud about the violently poor, landlocked south Asian country where some say empires go to die, according to Huffington Post. Many, particularly those who run in military and political circles and whose reputations rest on history's judgment of that nasty, never-ending guerilla war, would disagree. The army never lost a battle, they say and OTTAWA - It may yet serve as the epitaph to Canada's nearly 12-year involvement in Afghanistan. "We lost the war in southern Afghanistan and it broke my heart," Smith a former foreign correspondent with the Globe and Mail writes in the opening sentence of his intense, unflinching memoir. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.