OP-ED: The Afghan Imperative, By DAVID BROOKS, New York Times, September 24, 2009

Perfectly fine description of why the U.S. must remain "all in" on COIN in AfPak.

But, as with all such U.S.-centric explanations, it stops there and doesn't raise any issues about eliciting allied help beyond NATO.

In the end, without that, we're just stretching out the loss--and the pain.