When does the death toll stop?

In the columnist of the Washington Post an article was written by Fareed Zakaria titled “What Failure in Afghanistan?” It is a good article with good information that’s easy to understand. I will have to agree with the writer, how is being there going to help if the top of the power chain is so corrupted.

“Why has security gotten worse? Largely because Hamid Karzai's government is ineffective and corrupt and has alienated large numbers of Pashtuns, who have migrated to the Taliban. It is not clear that this problem can be solved by force, even using a smart counterinsurgency strategy. In fact, more troops injected into the current climate could provoke an anti-government or nationalist backlash.”
Then when you think there is nothing else to add to the argument here more wood added to the fire of the love ones that have to say good bye to there soldier once every two years, well that’s what the military says but it’s more like 6-12 months.
“Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently acknowledged what U.S. intelligence and all independent observers have long said: Al-Qaeda is in Pakistan, as is the leadership of the hard-core Afghan Taliban. (That's why it's called the Quetta Shura, Quetta being a Pakistani city.) All attacks against Western targets that have emanated from the region in the past eight years have come from Pakistan, not from Afghanistan. Even the most recently foiled plot in the United States, which involved the first Afghan that I know of to be implicated in global terrorism, originated in Pakistan. Yet we spend $30 in Afghanistan for every dollar in Pakistan.”
So much confusion in are reasoning of being there when there are other threats that need to dealt with, for example are crashing economy. So again I agree 100 percent with the writing. Its times like these we need to look at what we are doing and where we are at to make sure we are doing the right thing for are future and are children’s future.
The only thing I some what disagree is the ending. Was a little confused because for the most part the writing was making me feel they where more on the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. So nice spin on the ending just do not agree with it, if leaning the whole time on one side but end up on the other end, just do not get that.
“What about the argument that Osama bin Laden and his minions will simply shift back across the border if the Taliban is allowed free rein? Well, they haven't done so yet, despite the pockets of turf the insurgents control. And it is easier for us to deny them territory than to insist that we control it all ourselves -- we can fight like guerrillas, too. Remember that the United States and its allies have close to 100,000 troops in Afghanistan now. Keeping them there is the right commitment, one that keeps in mind the stakes, but also the costs, and most important, the other vital interests around the world to which U.S. foreign policy must also be attentive.”