Always easy to spot Israeli hasbara by the stilted English. I imagine you will be on the first El Al flight to the U.S. after the attack, when the Shia declare jihad against Israel. Please do not insult me with your inclusive "us".

Anyone who has operable USB ports on unsecured system critical machines is stupid. As to who did it, Cui Bono? Obviously the U.S.-Israel empire. That is how our secrets have been ferreted out to China and Israel for over a decade. The world is a different place from the early days of personal computing. I was once put off by a salesman, and used a floppy to install a bestiality screen saver on all his machines. I almost had a seizure when he booted his high end machine for a client. I imagine someone(s) in Israel is enjoying similar laughs now. I salute him(them). Ranger-Ric and ReaganiteGOPer are on target. This is the intelligent way to wage war. Now, I would like to see someone infect Goldman Sachs front-running software with a suicide algorithm, one that bets the corp at the wrong time!

I still have letters postmarked from Kabul in the late '60s. Two of my friends did a Kipling adventure - robbed in the Khyber Pass, played chess for their lives in Khost, saw 19th century Enfields being made in mountain huts, and smoked hashish at a youth hostel in Kabul. The people of this land came to life for myself in the late '80s, when I lived on the (San Francisco) East Bay. Many refugees from the Soviet invasion lived in the area. I had a friend named Noor, who would frequently share his table with me. His wife and daughters served us, than left the room to eat separately. But no burqa. These were gracious people. The refugees, of course, were the middle class. I always assumed they were brought here as a political statement against the Soviets. Their homeland is shattered. It is difficult to suggest leaving the residents to the Taliban, but impossible to consider continuing the horror of war. The Taliban problem will be solved by the Afghani people themselves. I imagine that once we pull out, Karzai will head for Dubai with the national treasury. The regional warlords will make alliances, and the Taliban will submit or die. In most of the land, the burqa would follow the Taliban. The rights of women in Afghanistan will neither be decided by the Taliban with their imported fundamentalism, nor by a Western feminist group like Code Pink. It will be decided by men, given the patriarchal culture. Just like in the U.S., the standards will vary by region. Social engineers would love to go in and pacify the men. But it would never happen. Try a surge of 400,000, if you plan on imposing cultural transformation. The Soviets tried it, and they were next door.