is almost intentionally trying not to put this together? no. i think first of all, news organizations don t have the money to staff. they have obliterated most of the foreign bureaus. so have you to rely on papers like the new york times, that can afford to put people in place. they have done a pretty good job with one piece this week, in which they sent mathew rosenberg, to a combat outpost to sort of investigate what happened because there were americans killed there, by afghan troops, that they had been living with and fighting with for months. they took over the outpost one night and began killing people. so that s a very good on-the- scene report, the kind of thing we used to get from afghanistan but we are really not going to get anymore. another times story worth considering is that there is a