There appears to be evidence around suggesting that the success of the international community, certainly in context with what you've said, is increasingly in doubt. An example, of course, I would cite would be comments made earlier this year, this past fall, by the NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Richards, when he said that NATO must take advantage of recent military victories and do as much reconstruction and development work as possible.
I am citing his comments here. He said that if we do not take advantage of this in the next six months, then we could pour in an additional 10,000 troops in the next year and we still would not succeed because we would have lost by then the consent of the people. Added to that would be the Senlis Council, an NGO working in southern Afghanistan, which has raised alarm bells over the possibility of the urgent need for reconstruction, development, and humanitarian aid.
The CIA has found that an increasing number of Afghans think that the Afghan government and police are corrupt, have not provided enough reconstruction, and can't protect their people from the Taliban. American officials have also publicly decried what they described as dire warnings about the situation, and the International Crisis Group has produced a very pessimistic assessment of the situation.
I don't want to counter what you've said, but considering what these many groups, bodies, and agencies have said, separate from each other, do you agree that these are very worrying and troubling analyses of the situation in Afghanistan, or is NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, the Senlis Council, the CIA, and the International Crisis Group all wrong?