[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >But even if it's just a line in a story released by an American press agency, >it has been reported. Yesterday, reading coverage from CNN, Reuters, AP's >wire feed, the NYTimes, Wash Post and WSJ I kept noting an acknowldgement of >assistance from Norway, Canada, Germany and (I believe, Australia). It stuck >in my mind because I almost *never* see anything about Norway in the news and >I saw them mentioned repeatedly. ;-) > I take it from your hesitation that Australian involvement is not widely reported? Does that include our casualties? (I think from memory that we suffered the first casualties of all uniformed units - not surprising when you're at the pointy end of the work to be done). It seems to me that the US Govt should be encouraging the US press to make a major song and dance about all the countries involved in this war - it doesn't imply any weakness or loss of credibility for the US, but tells fence-sitters and even the oppressed people of the world our message, that the west will not tolerate terrorism and that we are united in righting these wrongs. It is easy for the people in some of these countries to be anti-US, but a lot harder to preach anti-restoftheworld feelings. (I mean, who can be anti-Norway...)
Cheers Russell C.
