Sunday, October 30, 2011

Sigificant and Insignificant risk in Afghanistan

For those who love to Hate Harper I ask, do any of you have house insurance?

The risk of your house burning down is minimal.

The risk of your house burning down is significant.

Our troops obviously have minimal risk in comparison to being on the front lines, and in active battle, when they are trainers well behind the wire. However, each death is significant, so the risk is significant as well. This doesn't need to be framed as a polemic. Either/OR; This or That; Significant or Insignificant. Rather this is a time when both are true. Known to some as paradoxical perhaps, but sometimes one truth does not come at the dispensing of another.

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