Letters: Stand proud, Canadian soldiers, despite Trump's insults

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Ramp ceremony at Kandahar Air Field. — The remains of two of six Canadian soldiers killed on April 10, 2007, when their LAV III drove over an IED in the Kandahar province in Afghanistan are carried toward a waiting C-130 Hercules plane during a ramp ceremony held April 10, 2007 at Kandahar Air Field. Readers were incensed by U.S.. President Donald Trump's claim that NATO soldiers in Afghanistan stayed behind the lines. Photo by Christian Laforce / Postmedia files

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Re: Outrage across Europe after Trump says NATO avoided Afghan front line — Jan. 24

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Governments have denounced the insolent remarks of U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed that NATO allies “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan during the war that raged there from 2001 to 2021.

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