A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah....
The US military said the idea had been to give something for Afghan children to enjoy and they did not realise it would cause offence.
The footballs were dropped from a helicopter in Khost province.
('Blasphemous' balls anger Afghans - BBC)
Translation: They're foreigners, they'll like soccer balls. Fly over and drop some on 'em.
Meanwhile, a semantic quibble has broken out on the home front over whether we have "won" or "lost" in Iraq. Bunky, there ain't no way we'll do either, and there ain't no way we'd know if we did.
There was a lot of cluck-clucking and hah-hahing over exit strategies early on. Let me tell you something, sweetie pie: "Exit strategy" is just a fancy, dumbed-down way to say how we're gonna know if we won. We never had one. We still don't. What we have - what we've had all along - is spin. And spin is what we're left with. Spin, and the desert wind.
Let's get over the win-or-lose thing quick, and get to do-or-don't.
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