Q Did you at any time consider changing your itinerary about Kabul after learning this news? Or was that never--
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Never an option.
[Woohoo! Did you see that? But wait - it was just a warm-up.]
Q I guess, the question was, do you suppose in light of the current situation in Afghanistan that if a group does the act that it did and it suggests that they were going after you in some way, it's more a self-serving symbolic statement to their own people, look, we're on the attack against the Vice President, regardless of how ludicrous it is because you were so far from the scene of the actual incident?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I think they clearly try to find ways to question the authority of the central government. Striking at Bagram with a suicide bomber, I suppose, is one way to do that. But it shouldn't affect our behavior at all.
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Does that take your breath away or what? Trying to find ways to question the authority of the central government!
Oh, those wacky terrorists! Don't they get it? They don't have to blow themselves up - they can just go stand in the protests pens, like we do.
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