Is there a single public official who is examining — who cares about — more than 40 murders of Western troops and security contractors by Afghan security forces in the past two years? Obama? Pelosi? Romney? Newt? Anyone? In the last several months, there have been six separate attacks on Western forces by uniformed Afghan Army members. The toll includes three Australian soldiers killed (as they ended a regular, weekly parade) and ten wounded; six French troops killed and 14 wounded; one American killed and seven wounded.

The American fatality, 20-year-old Army Pfc. Dustin Paul Napier of Kentucky, was shot in the head earlier this month by an Afghan service member during a game of volleyball on base. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan didn’t offer that painfully vivid detail about the volleyball game; the media did.