Daily Archives: 4/12/2007
Why Are Our Troops in Afghanistan?
| 4/12/2007 | Posted by Patti under Afghanistan, War on Terror |
Anyone reading this blog would know pretty quickly, I’m not a fan of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of this country. The ONE thing that I can give him his due for is that he inherited a war and has proceeded to do what is needed to make sure our troops can get the job done. Travers at the Toronto Star can’t seem to get the picture clearly, this war started when we signed on to take part in 2002.
What are our troops doing in Afghanistan? If Travers can’t find an answer to that in his role as a journalist, then he needs to get off his duff and find out. If he doesn’t want to leave the safe confines of his office in secure Canada, he could visit the forums at Army.ca and ask the guys who have been carrying out the mission they have been sent on, the guys who are losing friends and comrades, they seem to have a pretty clear picture.
There are few things that can move me to tears, but reading about, watching ramp or repatriation ceremonies or listening to the families of those who have lost our Canadian sons and daughters will do exactly that. It is not easy to write or read about the loss of young Canadians fighting in foreign lands. We can be thankful that historically, the only place young Canadians have died fighting to insure our continuing freedom and security has been in foreign lands.
Maybe the media needs to really listen to those who are doing the dying about what we’re doing in Afghanistan. I listened to one of our soldiers being interviewed just after the death of the six Canadians repatriated last night to Canada. He talked about how the media only talks about the fighting and the deaths, they don’t talk about the progress the troops are seeing. The reporter interviewing him never asked him about the progress he was referring to.
Maybe, while the country is reeling trying to understand what the people on the ground are doing there in the face of eight deaths just this week, the media could do something really responsible and helpful. It is in the media’s hands to be able to do that instead of playing silly bugger politics.
Let the troops talk about what they are seeing that is letting them maintain their commitment to the mission in the face of the deaths some of them are seeing happen first hand. Quit pressing the guys to talk about horrors they are still trying to come to terms with, let them talk about why being there matters to them. Maybe then Canadians could get some balance that will help us understand why those 53 Canadians have died fighting to secure a foreign country.
We Will Remember Them
| 4/12/2007 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Mst Cpl Allan Stewart –Afghanistan Apr 11, 2007
Tpr Patrick Pentland –Afghanistan Apr 11, 2007
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