The Weekly Standard’s Victorino Matus never tires of following the Gurkhas, an elite Nepalese warrior force in the service of the British army. Now he’s asking, “if not Afghanistan, when?”

You can imagine the Gurkhas today, crawling and climbing through much of the same terrain, hunting down remnants of the Taliban, even hunting for Osama (and imagine if they had come upon John Walker). Instead, it’s the Delta Force and the SAS doing the job–which they no doubt can do. But it must be frustrating for the British Gurkhas, stationed back in cold and gloomy England, wanting to fight but having to sit around.

Umm. Gurkhas.

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