Report: US-led Afghan mission is failing

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0629/dailyUpdate.html
"The Independent reports that the group, which specializes in drug policies, predicts violence in the south of the country will escalate because the Taliban has been so effective at exploiting the anger "felt by farmers at the destruction of opium crops and by civilians who have suffered in US-led operations.""

Also, NATO deplores that the international community has forgotten Afghanistan
"Kabul - The international community does not listen to the Afghan government enough and has allowed itself to be distracted by the war in Iraq, which has allowed the Taliban to regain power in Afghanistan, the Head of NATO forces in the country, General Dave Richards, declared."
"We didn't do enough in the south," General Richards also acknowledged. "The population in the south has benefited very little from the billions of aid dollars spent in Afghanistan by the international community, while the region is the cradle of the 'students of religions' movement," he further judged.

It's only a matter of time before we lose control and influence over BOTH Afghanistan AND Iraq. And that's not skepticism, that's reality.

- Vox