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There's a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?
A little more than 18 years ago, amid the dust and hard heat of Kandahar Airfield, the weary look on Col. Ian Hope's face spoke more loudly than his words. It was the spring of 2006 and the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan had just been through …