Afghanistan is sort of like the weather...except no one seems to talk about it and no one seems to do much about it at all; it just happens to be there all the time. When was the last time you read anywhere, including out here in either right or left blogtopia about the goings-on in Afghanistan? Not too often.

Insurgents hit a Canadian base in southern Afghanistan with mortars, wounding six soldiers, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Afghanistan is suffering its deadliest bout of violence since the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted in late 2001.

Bin Laden and his bestest friend and protector, Mullah Omar have to be sitting back laughing their asses off over exploding hair gel and the utter paranoia they've induced in the West. The re-ascendence of the Taliban has been one of the least noted phenomenon in the media, and potentially one of the more low-key long-term annoyances for the West.

It remains to be seen whether or not the Afghani Adventure turns out to be the utter debacle that is Mess O'Potamia or not, perhaps the international actual "coalition" there will keep it from descending into utter chaos, but it does bear closer scrutiny than it seems to get from both sides of the aisle.