A recent intelligence report on the future of Afghanistan, as outside support (from the U.S., largely and other NATA nations at the margins) is slowly withdrawn, is not encouraging. As reported in a Washington Post article by Ernesto Londoño, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller, the report:
… predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017, even if Washington leaves behind a few thousand troops and continues bankrolling the impoverished nation, according to officials familiar with the report.
On the home front, meanwhile, the war has lost support so dramatically that, as Mario Trujillo of The Hill reports, a:
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