For what it's worth, I put this out on the street a while back. It is part of the discussion currently on the hill as politicians and policy makers grapple to craft solutions to a problem they do not well understand, that in turn the believe they can sell to their constituency back home.

(There are aspects of my proposal, such as not calling what we are doing in Afghanistan a "war" that causes such a radical change of perspective that many can understand, but struggle with how that makes them look when it goes to their electors back home).

http://www.scribd.com/doc/50971058/E...in-Afghanistan