DoD Strategic Communication Plan for Afghanistan

[Bob's World]

This is not an endstate:

".....Desired End State: The Afghan people and people in Allied and partner countries recognize and support the efforts of the Afghan government, the U.S., its Allies and partners in stabilizing and reconstructing Afghanistan. The Afghan people strongly support their government and reject insurgency, terrorism, and the narcotics trade."
This is a statement expressing our desire for others to support our current scheme of engagement in Afghanistan.

Hopefully any true endstate will be just about the Nation of Afghanistan, its populace and its governance, something more like:

"Endstate: A Sovereign Afghanistan with a functioning, self-determined government."

In otherwords, any Afghan "Endstate" that includes the United States and our allies, is not an end, it is a middle. Similarly, any endstate that descrides conditions that the US wishes to exist, but are not similarly desired by the populace and government of Afghanistan is certainly imporper, and most likely infeasible. I would send this effort back to the drawing board.