All dressed up with nowhere to go.
The statements coming out of the Whitehouse are simple 'America is at war'. Accordingly, the 19 members of NATO are invoking article 5 of the Washington treaty - an attack on one etc...
But with whom are we at war?
Should the perpetrator's of this terrible act be traced to Bin Laden, and the Taliban become guilty by association then our enemy is probably Afghanistan.
Notwithstanding obvious concerns about global stability I can't see a way of getting to Afghanistan. I realise that I'm not paid enough to have such concerns but I do own my own map of the world. Afghanistan is land-locked, surrounded by nations such as Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan and China.
Just getting to the place could be a destabilising act in itself. Worrying times my friends...