Los Angeles Times photo of Army Pvt. 2nd Class Chris Wade "advising" Afghan soldiers inside an Afghan National Army compound at FOB Naghlu.

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2012 began with the continuing Islamic jihad against infidel troops in Afghanistan, euphemistically sanitized, or, perhaps better, neutered as "blue on green" shootings, or "insider attacks." Given that US government and military officials permitted the deadly assaults to continue unchecked under cover of "additional risk," as Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey so very, very shamefully put it, it is little surprise that Christmas week brought us another such murder. Joseph Griffin, 49, a civilian trainer from Georgia, became the 62nd "additional risk" of the year (according to the New York Times), his point-blank assault distinguished by the fact that his Muslim killer was a woman, an Afghan policewoman. (In 2012, Dempsey would go on to even more sweeping abdications of his responsibilities as chief military officer on ordering the military to purge all training materials on Islamic jihad.)

In January of this year, my headline asked: "When Will We See Red over "Blue on Green" Murder? The answer, apparently, is never. Whether they know it, the blanket silence from our leaders -- from Obama to Romney to the House and Senate and the Pentagon -- has become their way to cover up glaring realities that Uncle Sam's see-no-Islam policy and the blinkered strategy to emerge from it (COIN) have produced an American fiasco in the Islamic world of almost unimaginable waste and deception.

Meanwhile, the Times today examines this latest case of murder in a story headlined "Policewoman in Slaying Leaves an Afghan Trail of Mystery." Among the many possible motives the "mystery" raises -- Was she an Iranian agent? Mentally ill? A jilted lover? A Taliban infiltrator? -- the specifically Islamic driver or jihad salvation, perhaps best elucidated here, is not considered. They'll invoke "workplace violence" before they ever get around to garden-variety Dar al-Harb jihad -- another gratingly, also numbingly familiar aspect of the phenomenon.

Joseph Griffin, RIP.