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War? What War? Bland Words Feed Our Indifference

Beach sands, piney cottages, hammocks in whispering breezes -- with summer on all sides, why would anyone pay attention to the empty clichés and euphemisms of politicians and talking military heads?

Surely it's Canadians' seasonal obsession that explains our apparent indifference to the worsening mess in Afghanistan. That, or a kind of cultural numbing that has set in since the affairs of that sad country stopped being dramatic front-page news.