"It Was Hot Out, and They Were Hungry 'Cuz It Was Ramadan, And...Did I Mention That It Was Really Hot Out?

American general John R. Allen uses every excuse in the book to excuse Afghans turning on and killing their supposed American allies. The real reason for the recent spate of murders is, as Diana West points out, glaringly obvious: "elementary and emphatic Islamic exhortations to kill 'infidels,'" i.e. the jihad.