Huge Explosion - Rocket-Based - Strikes Near U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan

Story from the wire service here.

BTW, did you happen to hear Richard Holbrooke mention the other day that we'll be in Afghanistan ages longer than in Iraq? That was disquieting, especially considering we've been there a year-and-a-half longer than in Iraq, we created more of a mess there, done virtually nothing toward rebuilding, the Taliban has largely taken over again, girls are once again kept from schools.... I could go on recounting the bungling horrid mess all night.

For all of this, Osama bin Laden and his pals remain free.

Also, we spent more than $900 million just last year on trying to eradicate the drug trade in Afghanistan, or well more than $100 million MORE than the entire country costs to operate in a year, YET, by the U.S. government's own estimation, they only cut drug production by less than 4%. By any other estimates, however, drug production there is UP exponentially.

What a fricking success story!