We can either render the Osamas of the world irrelevant by deflating their key issues or we can find ourselves consistently embroiled for many years to come.

It seems to me there is a relatively easy third option which would take care of all the little Osama nits and his believers and also leave us unembroiled in the future.

Old Blue has a higher standard for American soldiers working and dying in Afghanistan. He does not, evidently, hold the Afghans themselves to any sort of standard at all. Which is a problem for this taxpayer.