Media’s histrionic flag-waving, quash dissent on Afghanistan

NDP became first national party to commit to troop withdrawal, some media engage in harangue

All omens are there: The bottom has dropped out of the Afghanistan mission. Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks defiantly. "The Taliban is on the run," he recently said, but listen carefully and you detect confusion and unease.

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