Which they might want to pay attention to, since the Paki gov't. has just basically surrendered to the Taliban and Al-Q'aeda on the other side of the mountains from Gardez.
Operationally, this will release beefy formations of Taliwhackers to cross the mountains and attack these SF outposts. "A Silence in the Mountains" indeed -- junior-league Left-wing, guerrilla-theater dramatics, recalling both Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) and Tacitus ("solitudines faciunt et pacem appellant"). If you read the whole article, there's gunplay aplenty. Silence, my ass. Self-consequent liberal wankers.
The Times won't get it until those barbarians fly a plane into their building.