The West needs to get its priorities strait, and reflect on who actually best represents our hopes and values in the Middle East. Turkey is 'our man', not Israel or any of America's Arab lapdogs.

I suspect this election, no matter the outcome, will leave Afghanistan hopelessly fractured with large elements of the losing side joining the insurgency, possibly transforming it into a full-blown civil war

Planes can auto-land themselves, they had a show on it on Mythbusters. Pilots are more or less just there now if something goes wrong I guess.

The writer is very right. Indians are the laziest people, I think. So many holidays in India. How can people do like this and government can allow this?

Fat people create problems every where. It will be nice to have separate arrangement for them in planes and in buses. It will definitely reduce the problems of other passengers.