You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.