Last month President Karzai said something about how he would side with Pakistan against the US if it came down to it. The most common reaction by people who think it would be kinda cool if we win the war in Afghanistan was something like, "Why don't you just poke me in the eye with a needle! You've got to be kidding me." US Army Major General Peter Fuller went a little further though, and he actually said that. He was hastily fired, with ISAF apologizing and pledging to increase aid to Afghanistan's needle industry in order to show the Afghan people our sincerity.
In the Iraq War, something that seemed to help were the occasional paradigm shifts, like "CPT Trav's" cut-the-crap cartoon called "How to win in Al Anbar," found here.
I don't know what that looks like for Afghanistan, but here's one, ahem, anonymous (lest anyone else lose their job) shot at it. (Click on the first image, and the slideshow will come up).
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