Someone wrote us from Afghanistan yesterday to warn us that it’s Friday, the traditional weekly holy day, so we should expect increases in the riot there after morning prayers over the Koran burning thing. Luckily that hasn’t materialized. They must’ve all gone home to the tradition chicken and biscuit meal, or something.<\/p>\n
However, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan went to the sight where two US soldiers were killed yesterday by someone in an Afghanistan National Army uniform and told the US troops that “now is not the time for revenge” (Associated Press<\/a> link);<\/p>\n U.S. Gen. John Allen traveled late Thursday to Nangarhar province to calm U.S. troops at the forward operating base where the incident occurred earlier in the day.<\/p>\n He told them to resist whatever urge they might have to strike back after an Afghan soldier killed the two American troops. His comments were released Friday.<\/p>\n Afghan National Army Gen. Sher Mohammed Karimi, who traveled to the base with Allen, told the U.S. troops that their sacrifice is not wasted.<\/p>\n Karimi says the Americans and Afghans together are “fighting an enemy of humanity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, we certainly are. I don’t know what Karimi is saying to the protesters, though. It seems like they need to be lectured more than the US troops need a lecture on keeping their calm.<\/p>\n Our man in Afghanistan also reports that the war is wearing on the POGs, too. He writes that they’re complaining that they have to eat an MRE for lunch and they’ve had to go a couple of days without ice cream. So the war will be ending any day now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"