COIN Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan

According to many critics (newspaper columnists, retired officers, and think tank writers) our current counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan is simply not working.  This is a result of many reasons - depending on who is talking about it (or writing about it) at the time.  One correspondent has provided us with a lengthy online article (via AOL Original News) in "Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say", Politics Daily, January 12, 2011.