...meet the press...

I read the first few sentences of Tobi Cohen's article on the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan two or three times before zeroing in on what bothered me so much - he flippantly refers to Kandahar Airfield as "relatively cushy".

I think it's disrespectful to the situation faced by our soldiers in Afghanistan to refer to the airbase that they temporarily call "home" as cushy, despite the improvements that have been made there in the last year and a half. It certainly seems inappropriately casual coming from a journalist. Definately another disappointing show from The Toronto Star, whose standards seem to fall increasingly with every year.