In Afghanistan reporting, The Washington Post is more interested in the cats

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION: Now this is news. "Veteran diplomat Ryan C. Crocker can handle Islamist insurgencies, hostile heads of state and management of some of the world’s largest embassies. But what’s he going to do about the cats? The new leader of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has probably already walked past (and possibly petted?) Gordo, Freckles, Dusty, Ferdinand and Maria Teresa or any of the other 25 to 30 felines that populate the downtown diplomatic campus. But in case he has not been briefed on the bizarre battle over their fate (kill them! save them! fly them to Berkeley!), here are the basics." I think this reader's response was fairly apt. "The Post can't find a more important Afghanistan related subject to report? Pathetic. Obama promised progress on the civilian as well as military front. Why not investigate how the usg [sic] is trying to fix the pervasive corruption?" Indeed.