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Flanker said:What is the problem?
Let's inform people properly!
I think the problem is much simpler.
The people is uninformed because no one is able to formulate, in a clear and understandable way, the needs and benefis of staying there as well as to give a clear criteria of what is considered the "well-finished job" .
Are you able to do this?
What ordindary people see right NOW, is costly military expenses and regular arrivals of killed soldiers.
You think so eh??
How about you go ask the media then when they are going to start doing their jobs?? This is especially obvious in Quebec these days ...
I DO my job already, and I take evry opportunity I can to inform the uneducated as to the ACTUALITIES of the mission in Afghanistan.
What ordinary people are seeing right NOW, is a PERCEPTION of costly military expenses and regular arrivals of killed soldiers ... because "REPORTERS" (thus the media) are more interested in non-reporting, bleeding and leading, and profit for their shareholders. Kid yourself not.. Their focus is on the body count of our fallen, and DIRECTLY influences the PERCEPTION in that ill-educated (but vocal) portion of the Candian population of whom I speak.
Isn't a reporters JOB to REPORT the FACTS??
Their absolute neglect to report on advances within Afghanistan (rebuilding - PRT - girls in school - women at work - kids outside playing and flying kites - music heard in the souks and marketplaces - ALL DIRECTLY caused by those very military personnel doing their jobs), causes a LAZY Canadian public too BUSY to bother to pay attention to any other newssource except that MSM beamed in to their big screens TVs ... and when that MSM fails to report ALL the facts and details ... do not blame the soldier ... nor those who speak of the good ... look squarely at the media and ask ... WHY NOT?
People can explain our mission and it's complexities all they like, and they have, but when the media doesn't give it airtime, or gives it a mere soundbite ... that's the media determining the political future of this country. If you're OK with that -- fill your boots. This girl isn't.