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.

Yes, inconvenient for us, the US taxpayers. Likely still more prosperity waste ahead and new fronts on the "drug war". We will never recover our losses there or Iraq, any more than we did from Vietnam. Mark my words carefully.