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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, so why isn't there more news about the American-Canadian family that were released in Pakistan?
There is something very strange about this case. 45 virtually ignored it except to take credit for the US having more respect around the world because he is President.
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OK, so why isn't there more news about the American-Canadian family that were released in Pakistan? (Original Post)
coolsandy
Oct 2017
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Takket
(21,687 posts)1. ABC news covered it every day for about a week
The circumstances of their capture are beyond bizarre
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. The family refused to be taken to an American base before going to Canada.
They are quite anti-Trump....explains a lot.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. What sort of news are you expecting?
Does this family owe you something?
Or is there some requirement that if one has been in the news, then one has no right to privacy to recover from a deeply traumatizing experience and get one with one's life?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)4. The main thing I found strange was why
on earth anybody would take their family on a hike through Taliban territory in Afghanistan.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)5. They don't seem to want much to do with America or the media . Whack as they seem, I
can understand that