STATUS OF U.S. IN AFGHANISTAN AT NEW YEAR

"... the US is killing schoolchildren far too often, enraging the Afghan public. It has provoked a studnet protest movement against it in Jalalabad and Kabul. Its informants are double agents (who blew up 7 CIA officers). Its supposed partner, the Afghan army, mostly doesn't actually exist and couldn't be depended on to show up to anything important; and that is when they aren't taking potshots at US troops; and there is no Afghan government as we go into 2010."
http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html