Sorry Mr. President...

But the war is lost. The Dailykos paralleling the state of Afghanistan to a theory of an guerilla war:

According to Mao's theory of guerilla war, the Taliban are now in Phase 3, the final stage of an insurgency, during which the guerilla is in a position to actually mount large scale offensives after having seized the country side and confined the government troops to the cities. An insurgency shifting from Phase 2 (conquest of the countryside, delegitimation of the government) may appear to be stalemated, while it is merely pooling its strength for the final push.