Those two stories are about the same soldiers and the same incident. Canadian soldiers aren't getting killed. I'm not naive and yes all of Afghanistan is dangerous and yes you totally missed my point. My point was that your government isn't allowing the troops that you guys do have to get into combat roles, they are often playing more humanitary type roles over there, yeah it's all dangerous but they're not as the soldiers call it "out in the shit". So I didn't mean anything by it other than your government has soldiers there as a largely symbolic gesture but still helpful.