Why didn't the USA media even discuss that the Taliban killed a high-profile...

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...policewoman? This is by far the most depressing story of the week, along with the bail-out of the banks which to me is still not as big as the loss of human life.

In the USA, nobody knows a thing about the Taliban killing of a Policewoman who was supporting the needs and frustrations of women in Afghanistan. Without mercy, the Taliban shot her down and said "She was the target and we got our target obliterated."

Now the Taliban continues to keep an all-male run society with females having to fear for their lives the risk of trying to change the system.

The same Taliban that habored Osama bin Laden, whose network was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, is suddenly of no interest to the headline news in the USA, the country on whose behalf the whole war in Afghanistan concerns?

That's disgraceful. The focus is on Iraq Iraq Iraq, a country that bared no role in 9/11 at all. And the Canadians are fighting America's war for them. And they say the USA's army defends Canada??? It looks like quite the opposite if you ask me.
The only reason I know about this story is thanks to http://www.cbc.ca radio, which has a FREE online stream?!!!!

There's no excuses anymore for Americans, you have cbc it doesn't cost one penny to listen in on it.
ATTN poster #5, I am very happy to be called a Canadian, I wish you were right! Oh how I wish you were right. I don't even want to bet with you, I'd want you to win.
 
There are 36000 American troops in Afghanistan as compared to 2000 Canadians so I don't know where you get the idea that Canada is fighting our war for us.
As far as no coverage on a dead police woman in Afghanistan goes, in case you haven't noticed we're in the middle of a once in a century financial crisis and that has a tendency to trump the death of a cop half a World away. Besides everyone already knows that life for women in Afghanistan sucks, but thanks for the update.
 
I think you answered your own question. While the death of a policewoman is tragic, it's way down the list of important things going on in this country right now. Between the economy, the war, and the election there just isn't time.
 
Bubba is right that there are a lot more Americans in Afghanistan than Canadians. There was actually a lot more than I expected.

But I would have to correct the numbers a bit. The Americans at last count had a little over 35,000 troops in Afghanistan, but that was a combined total for the two operations that are going on there (Operation Enduring Freedom is the non-NATO campaign, ISAF is the NATO operation)

The Canadians actually have over 4500 troops if you combine the 2025 from the OEF campaign and the 2500 from ISAF.

But you are right, things in Afghanistan and even in Iraq are taking a backburner now, since the DOW dropped more points in one day than it did when the World Trade Center was attacked.

And with elections upcoming in both Canada and USA, it simply is not "hot news" to say someone died in the war in the middle east, especially if it was not an American or Canadian soldier.
 
This is nothing new. Anytime a female steps up to do something different they get shot. It has been happening for a long time, and its sad. Females that run beauty salones there get death threats and are kidnapped.
 
The same reason that the media reports only 1/30 th of all the food riots going on around the world...they don't care and there isn't enough interest and they are in very poor countries. These riots usually have no less than ten hungry people die per riot (some of the riots have had several hundred people die)...and these are working people whose total income for a full day's work isn't enough to buy food for their children.
 
The "only reason I know about this story is" Because your a Canadian pretending to be an Americian.
 
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