Quote For The Day II

"We are happy to have [the Americans:] here now. But if they kill a single civilian, people will turn
against them," - an Afghan villager to a New York Times reporter, in a fascinating dispatch from the front.

And there you have the excruciating dilemma of a neo-imperial presence designed to save nations from their own internal pathologies and the rise and rise of Jihadist, violent, medieval Islam. Even when you make no mistakes, there is no gratitude - because you are still a foreign...