Well its pretty accademic what happened here and why, what about the big picture?
This is just one of many sorry events that could have been avoided if we werent occupying these countries in the first place.
I'm with Ron Paul, get the troops out of there, use the money help pay off defecits.

Terrorism willl always exist, civilians in the west will just have grow a pair of balls and learn to take their chances as they go about their daily lives, imagine if we 'decalared war' on threats that are statisticly far more likely to kill us,
We'd have a war on Cancer, a war on bad drivers, and a war on violent felons at the very least.
The war on terror is a farce, it has nothing to do with counter-terrorism, its about special intrests and the whole world knows it. Even many of the soldiers fighting it are starting realise - and they every reason to be fed up.

This attitude of 'screw what the world thinks - we can do what we want' (like a spoiled teenager) well, thats gonna come home to roost when
we are fresh out of friends and can no longer print our way of our debt bubble.

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http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/kr...ormat=format10
source: Der Tagesspiegel

We already declare war on just about everything. We have the war on drugs, war on hunger, the 'other' war on drugs, a war on greed, war on poverty, the war on hip hop, war on global warming, war on cancer, whale wars, war on crime, greenwar and the war on pollution, a war on religion, price wars, Cod wars, war on gangs, war on globalization, war on guns, a war to end all wars, war on fishing, a war on strip clubs, war on heroin, war on zombies. You name the problem we're gonna wage war on it!

As tragic as this whole affair has been, looks like revenge is at work.
Ofr course when 70 NATO troops are killed this way in 42 seperate attacks, Karzai says nothing. When the Taliban catch up with him in the future, I will say nothing when they put a bullet in his brain.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ecurity-forces

Lets hope that Obama or whoever replaces him in november takes a lesson from Jimmy Carter and refuse to let him in the US after he get's deposed.

The two dead in the above link were British soldiers.