From what I can gather that would be up to the Afghan forces and their leaders appear to be corrupt as fuck along with the fighting men. I'm about half way through and all I'm seeing is the old saying 'the fish rots from the head down'. More involvement from the US (or UK maybe) would just cause further grief with locals and more questions than answers back home. It truely is a shocking state of affairs, you can see how someone like bin laden gathered a following when their own government has so little control over what the country does, even when using the US as a crutch.

I find it a little commendable that the US have managed to maintain a pro active role in the face of all this, pushing rocks up mountains so they roll back down. That one poor sod looked as if he'd been doing it for a lifetime.