Paul Boutin, a senior editor (er, my editor) at Wired, contemplates flying to Afghanistan to get into the action, then reconsiders.

To be honest with myself, I know I won’t be going. Remove all the lame excuses (job, marriage, bills, etc) and there’s still my health, which makes it hard to get to the corner store sometimes. One can only imagine me in a desert combat zone without my asthma meds.

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