RIP, and my deepest condolences to their family's , but this was one of the things, that it is almost impossible to avoid when you are interacting with and training Afghan military and police, there will be 5th. columnists here and there, nevertheless it was a very sad way to loose 5 good soldier's life's.

The situation in Afghanistan is difficult, but that is no reason to give up, If the Brits in WW2 had been as defeatist as some members of this board, Hitler would have received a surrender after Dunkirk.

It is after all better to fight on Afghan soil, than to scoop up dead body's in the London underground, Madrid train stations or from the rubble of New York high rises, as long as the swine's are under severe pressure in their heartland, they have less time, energy and resources to contemplate major terror act's, and to carry them out in a successful way, as the last few years is testament to.

The 5 dead young Soldiers where part of that, on their part heroic, effort to keep us all safer back home, and an effort to give the Afghan people a brighter and more enlightened future, by giving up now, their death's will have been in vain.

Luckily even Obama has pledged himself to the long haul in Afghanistan, with increased troop numbers as gradual withdrawal from Iraq progresses, something quite a few of his otherwise weak-kneed supporters conveniently seems to forget, just as he has decided to carry on with the CIA rendition/kidnapping programs that Clinton another Democrat in fact started, and Bush is criticised for.

It might be a new foot, but it is in many ways the same trusted old boot, and that at-least might in the end be a deciding factor, in ultimately giving purpose and justice for the 5 young Heroes absolute and final sacrifice.