Well, believe it or not, often times this is how carbon bike parts will fail. Without warning and catastrophic. I hope you or I never have to find this out the hard way.

I have no problem with the Kestrel fork. In fact I have one on my bike. Your insinuation that the fork failure in the original post could have been prevented simply by chosing a better brand of fork is optimistic at best. Carbon fiber bike parts can and will break. No manufacturer's parts are immune to this.