re: You're right, it's very, very grim.- You know what reality is...
..it's that so called 'insurgents' are at large and so is Osam and et/al/ilt. That's what's what.
U.S., Afghanistan and Pakastan better wake up and smell the coffee (as a mutual friend would put it). Enough already... get Osama and his No.2 whatever hentchman and let's be done with it. Something tells me that the people, especially the women have had enough.
Do you understand that, Bowser?