Thought for the Week

With modern technologies, such as Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), it is now possible to be lost, more accurately, than at any other time in history.

GPS is a wonderful thing. It can pinpoint your location on the surface of the earth to less than the size of a Honda Civic. Unfortunately this will not tell you where to go, or how to get there. GPS does not warn you of roads that have moved. (An all too common occurance here in Afghanistan, where roads can shift location by several hundred meters a year.) Nor will GPS warn you of irrigation ditches wide and deep enough to swallow a HMMWV.

But, by golly, GPS tells you exactly where you are...in the middle of the deep Afghani desert!