As much as it pains me to say it...
...Zerb has a point.
Oh, it's not quite the point she thinks it is - this "revelation" is nothing more than looking at a half-full glass and drawing attention to the empty portion. It also ignores the fact that the glass is slowly filling more and more each day.
But we don't serve ourselves well by ignoring any part of the reality in Afghanistan.
Around here, we tend to tell more positive stories than negative ones, not because we don't see the negative, but because it's so omnipresent in the mainstream media that we feel a little emphasis on the positive only serves to balance things out. Zerb, on the other hand, allows the negative to blind her to the true reality: without Canada and NATO fighting in Kandahar, the plight of women and children in Afghanistan would be much worse.
Oh, it's not quite the point she thinks it is - this "revelation" is nothing more than looking at a half-full glass and drawing attention to the empty portion. It also ignores the fact that the glass is slowly filling more and more each day.
But we don't serve ourselves well by ignoring any part of the reality in Afghanistan.
Around here, we tend to tell more positive stories than negative ones, not because we don't see the negative, but because it's so omnipresent in the mainstream media that we feel a little emphasis on the positive only serves to balance things out. Zerb, on the other hand, allows the negative to blind her to the true reality: without Canada and NATO fighting in Kandahar, the plight of women and children in Afghanistan would be much worse.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 1:20 p.m.
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