Another day in Afghanistan

A suicide blast hit a flea market set up outside a joint US-Afghan military base in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, killing at least two Afghan soldiers and wounding foreign and Afghan forces.

Gulam Dastagir Rostumyar, deputy provincial police chief in Paktia said the blast tore through the bazaar in Gardez, the provincial capital.

"In a suicide attack in a flea market outside the military base, two Afghan National Army soldiers were killed and four were wounded," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101205/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestnatoblast_20101205114133

Does anyone really think our presence is having any positive effect?