Remember Afghanistan? How everything there is now fine and we need pay no attention to it?

KARACHI - Such is the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, compounded by the return to the country of a large number of former Afghan communist refugees, that United States and Pakistani intelligence officials have met with Taliban leaders in an effort to devise a political solution to prevent the country from being further ripped apart. (found via Beatniksalad)

Move along, nothing to see here...