Absolutely. For National Defence, there are a lot of really good news stories.
I look at the way things were conducted at all different levels in missions like Somalia, and some of the missions in Bosnia, in the early nineties and mid-nineties, and the support that the soldiers got, and then I look at today, and there's a big difference. But I'm not sure the difference is at the higher level--I don't mean within the military, I mean within the governing elite--as to how we want to....
The DND public affairs people are driving people nuts over in Afghanistan because they're letting the reporters go everywhere. I've written stories about just how open they're trying to be over there. I don't want to be seen to be trying to kick something that's down. I think there's a good news story, and I want to help tell it.