Hope your friends make it back. And all the rest of them.
I personally think the Afghanis and Pakistanis too should spend their
time killiing each other, rather than Americans and Western infidels.
Trouble is the terrorists with an agenda will use the landscape for
organizing another 911 or the like.
We haven't had the leaders of a Moslem country as 'friend' since
Kemal Ataturk and Jordana's royal family. Oh, forgot the Shah of
Iran. And he was replaced with a line of religious nuts and Mahdi
dervishes.