Low Cal Food for Thought

Has no one else remembered that immediately before the September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., that al Qaeda assassinated Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud?

Today, of course, there was an attempt on the life of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Don’t think I’m trying to be alarmist — assassination has long been the preferred method of succession in Central Asia. But it is also something to be mindful of.