Seldom any warning

Mark Steyn writes about the phenomena of "NATO-trained, NATO-paid Afghans turning on their western “allies” and killing them." He quotes from a Flashman novel written in 1969:  "This I will say for the Afghan – he is a treacherous, evil brute when he wants to be, but while he is your friend he is a first-rate fellow. The point is, you must judge to a second when he is going to cease to be friendly. There is seldom any warning."

Steyn concludes with this warning: "In the end you can be politically correct or you can be a great power — but not both."
Read more here:  http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314520/less-tea-more-flash-mark-steyn