Kabul in a Far Better Shape than You Think

Fire of Liberty

As I was watching FOX News this past Monday I came upon the rioters in the street burning cars and raising all kinds of hell in the streets of Kabul after a truck our soldiers were driving collided(faulty brakes)with several Afghan civilians. One thing that really got my attention was a young guy before a large group started shouting in perfect English that the folks in Afghanistan wanted Bush , the Americans, foreigners and their various influences out of Afghanistan for good. Now I'm not a complete expert on Afghanistan but I know that based on the pre-war nature of Kabul, the likelihood that an everyday Afghan enunciating such fluent English is very rare. I'm guessing he's part of the large groups of rabble-rousers who's migrated to Afghanistan from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf or even Europe to cause trouble and thus presented a sense of chaos in Kabul to the Western media. With cameras on the scene, folks from New York, L.A., Chicago, London, Paris, Berlin, and even Middle Georgia were presented with a deluge of scenes of cars and shops afire, rioters in the streets and the cameo of our English speaking thus presenting Afghanistan in complete chaos and the Afghan security forces and police absent from the scene. Now most folks would assume from the footage that all is lost in Kabul but luckily for us there's fine bloggers like Bill Roggio who are providing us a far better assessment of the situation in Kabul than what the MSM seems to report. According to Roggio's fine reporting over at Counterterrorism Blog the Afghan capital is at a relative calm which is far from what a casual viewer would have thought was possible. I'd say folks will gleam more knowledge from reading this post than anything the MSM has put together, so be sure to read it and get informed.