Do you doubt there is an agenda?

Headline in today's Globe:

Afghan costs leave navy up the creek

Then the first paragraph:

Canada's navy is out of money for operations as the military diverts resources to the fight in Afghanistan.

That is written as fact. Then this, also presented as fact:

...it is a sign of how much pressure the Afghan mission is putting on other military operations.

But on what are these statements based?

"Afghanistan is eating money like you wouldn't believe," said Peter Haydon, a retired naval officer now with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies in Halifax. "The demand for money is being transferred through the whole military system. Afghanistan is a huge financial drain."..

Defence experts says those priorities are in Afghanistan.

"I think the big picture here, if I have to make one, is that Afghanistan has become so all-absorbing of time, energy and resources for everyone that there's nothing left over," said Dan Middlemiss, a political science professor who teaches defence policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

"They haven't been able to budget adequately for Afghanistan, as much as they are trying, because needs keep evolving and new requirements emerge on the spot and they have to deal with them quickly. So it's exhausting everybody in the process."..

In other words, the evidence for the diversion of funds from the Navy to Afghanistan is the opinion of two "experts". Now their opinions may be accurate; but they are not facts. This story as written is agenda journalism, not reporting

Update: More on what may be an agenda: "Hope fading among Afghans".