The Afghan Phoenix

At a time when the mainstream media can barely be bothered reporting events which, if they were occurring in Eastern Europe, would be considered epoch-making, I suppose I should be grateful that this morning's bulletin on ABC Radio National led with the inaugural session of the Afghan Parliament. Still, in a twenty second spot, they managed two references to 'invasion', and quoted President Karzai as saying that Afghanistan was "rising from the ashes of invasion". I have a feeling that when the ABC talks about the invasion of Afghanistan, they're thinking about Coalition troops, and not asshats like David Hicks.