"This is a war zone, not an amusement park":  McChrystal's Apocalypse Now Directive

                             

"This was the moment Pizza Hut died on Kandahar Airfield. No bugle nor a trumpet sounded. Just a few forlorn spectators watched with dismay as two cranes hauled the infamous fast food container from the Nato base’s boardwalk....The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, ordered all fast food restaurants to close - ostensibly to free up space and logistics capacity for mission essential supplies."

As fictional counterinsurgent Col. Walter E. Kurtz, wrote in his 'Commitment and Counter-Insurgency,' "As long as cold beer, hot food, rock and roll and all the other amenities remain the expected norm, our conduct of the war will gain only impotence."