Reply #5: Understand but I stand by my opinion, we must wait until CINC Obama presents his goals and strategy

[jody]

for his inherited war in Afghanistan.

There are over 40 million Pashtun tribe members in the contiguous area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Essentially all the Taliban are Pashtun who as you pointed out want to establish a fundamental Islamic government.

They've been defeating invaders for over a thousand years.