How to solve the green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan

Or "insider" attacks as the Pentagon would now like us to characterize them.

In the first place, it's always struck me as more than a little fatuous to assume that we've got anything to teach those folks about the art of war. They're the guys who put the run to the Soviet military machine back in the 80's and 90's. They're the ones who have battled the combined forces of the US and NATO to what might charitably be called a draw over the past decade.

But we need to "train" them?

That quibble aside, the think tank here at Falling Downs has the solution.

Distance education!

That's right! A quick internet search confirms that damned near anything you want to learn can be learned via distance education. There are few trades, crafts, careers and professions that do not make their inner secrets available on-line.

If you can learn to fix a car through distance education, surely you can learn how to sight in that AR-15.

And instead of a burst from that AR-15, an insider attack is going to take the form of a nasty e-mail.

"May you rot in hell many life-times, infidel pig-dog!"

Not pleasant, but it ain't gonna kill anybody.