Since this is a milblog, of sorts, I guess I have a duty to report on the situation in Afghanistan after the dust up over the Korans that were intentionally defaced by detainees by passing extremist messages written on the pages in a detention facility in Bagram, and then the holy volumes were mistakenly taken to a burn pit to be destroyed by some Joes doing what they were told.<\/p>\n
Anyway, our man on the scene in Kabul says that he was all over the capitol yesterday and it seems that things have returned to normal over there. Whatever normal happened to be before the riots last week. I suppose that means that the ANA and police aren’t killing civilians who are protesting by throwing grenades over the fence at Americans. But it’s still your normal, standard, run-of-the-mill shithole. Just less noisy.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Christian Science Monitor<\/a> wonders if Afghanistan was “worth it”. And in Australia, The West<\/a> calls the Australian mission to Afghanistan “a failure”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"