"Take up our quarrel with the foe..."

The Canadian Forces in Afghanistan lost three more soldiers this morning. The soldiers were killed by a bomb while traveling in a vehicle west of the city of Kandahar. Their deaths marked the end of the longest hiatus in the body count, which lasted a grand total of 88 days, since Canadian troops hit the ground in 2006. Perhaps more significantly, this morning's fallen soldiers pushed Canada to 100 military deaths in Afghanistan. 100 soldiers, many of whom were not much older than your average high school senior. This is to say nothing of the Afghani people killed, which various sources estimate at anywhere from 540 to 1,445 civilians in the last year alone. Civilians and teenagers dying in droves halfway around the world and what do we have to say about it?

Theatrically, next to nothing. Politically, not enough. There was a brief flury of anti-Iraq war agitprop theatre. But since, nothing much that I have heard of. If I'm wrong, please point me in the right direction. But where is this on our stages? Shouldn't it be there?

Photo credit: AP/David Guttenfelder