So let's start this off right with a topic that is a bit serious and involves both religion and politics.
The other day, the Afghans went crazy when it came out that some US soldiers burned some copies of the Quran. It hasn't been widely reported in the media, but I've read that prisoners were using their copies to pass secret messages in jail and that the copies were confiscated by the guards. These copies were then inadvertently included in waste to be burned and that when the second group of soldiers realized/were told what they were burning, they did their best to save the copies from being completely burned up.
Now of course such fine distinctions are unimportant. A slight against Allah and His Word must be met with revenge. So now all hell has broken loose over there. Obama has apologized, but this has done nothing to rectify the situation. In fact, it is so bad that Afghan soldiers partnered with NATO troops have fragged their western partners. NATO advisers have been withdrawn from the Afghan ministries in Kabul lest some Afghan walk up and shoot the NATO in the back of the head at his desk.
Yesterday it was suggested by Newt Gingrich that the US should pull out of Afghanistan (I paraphrase here), we should leave them to live their miserable lives if they insist on not wanting us around to help them be unmiserable.
The US has been in Afghanistan for ten years along with its NATO allies. Afghanistan is /still/ the hind end of the earth, about as civilized now as it was ten years ago, meaning it's about as civilized now as it was a thousand years ago.
What should the US do? Pull out completely? Hole up at one of the major air bases like Bagram and let the Afghans do whatever?