Airstrip One

Irony in Kabul

Forget about the Edinburgh Fringe, the capital of irony this year is Kabul. They celibrated independence day on August 19. Really. And yes, President Karzai's American bodyguard came along too.

In the last this week we've had 100 deaths in Afghanistan due to the low level civil war. It's such a relief that we've subdued them in the same way as we're doing in Iraq.