Afghanistan the site of another Co War?

I call it a Co War, as it's not quite the cold war that we traditionally know it, but there are enough resemblances to remind us of one. In the traditional sense of the term, Cold War referred to the war between global superpower fought not on each others' soil, but some other third party such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea, Nicaragua, Angola, etc.

The pattern that is emerging in Afghanistan in the last one and a half years differs for two reasons, a) it is not between superpowers, but it is between two nuclear armed states and apparently stern enemies and b) it is not quite two-sided yet, no am I looking forward to it becoming so.

The Indian Embassy in Kabul was first targeted in July 2008. Right about four months later, they decided to strike again in October 2009...exactly four months later, Indian officials were the prime target again today (Friday morning) in Kabul city. The collateral damage in each attack obviously goes much beyond the target groups, with Afghan civilians making the greatest and easiest victims. Today's attack, based on the current reports, apparently took the lives of at least nine Indians, one French, one Italian and five Afghans, with about 30 people injured.

The question that always comes to my mind is whether we will ever learn, come to our senses and stop the violence.