"Americans are saying that with their planes they can see an egg 18 kilometers away, so why can’t they see the Taliban?"
— Abdullah Wasay, 60, a pharmacist in Charikar, a market town about 25 miles north of Kabul, quoted in “Prospect of More Troops Worries Afghans,” Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times, November 7, 2009
