These types of stories, like the ones being spread by Oliver North, are designed to sucker us back into Afghanistan and holding up some other group we can pump money into for no good results.
Not so. The Panjsher, although about half the size of Los Angeles county, has been home to the Anti-Islamists for more than thirty years. It will serve as the rebels home from now into the future. Mahsood senior never depended on the United States for its survival, and if Mahsood junior is wise, he will reject the promises from Langley that are sure to come.
Keeping a few spec-ops troops backed by airpower and forward air observers is minimal cost to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a base for terrorists again. It worked well until Bush decided to do "nation building."
As you should see now, there's a big difference between not-winning and defeat. This is defeat.