Part 2 of Damian's excellent Afghanistan adventure.
Posted by Kate at January 26, 2009 1:02 PMTried to post this at The Torch but need account, so I'll post it here. Hopefully Damian will see it
"You have taken a trip to places we only read about,"
Oh really? Where do we read about it? Not any newspaper, magazine, media website etc. Same as all the comments on SDA's GWB thread, why isn't this on the daily news? Somebody ram a copy down Taliban Jack's throat along with all the other naysayers and "anti-war" leftoid twits. Make the Canadian public aware of what we do there
Excellent, great work by Damian. Really well-written. There's no substitute for open eyes and ears on the ground.
The usual editorializing suspects in the MSM, who make their beds behind the assembly hall in Ottawa and cover the mission almost entirely in the context of domestic political battles -- think "CBC" -- treat each soldier's death as a political victory for the "anti-war" side, shamelessly appropriating the grief for partisan purposes.
Damian's work, along with Terry Glavin's, earlier, is, in the context of Canadian blogging, groundbreaking.
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