[blam]

"Needing hundreds is encouraging because he isn't asking for thousands."

I agree. Hundreds ought to be doable.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"Hundreds ought to be doable." Yeah, like 99 hundreds? There seems to be an endless supply of fighters coming in from the border region and we aren't controlling the flow. What we need is an OK from Musharrif to go in there and mess them up in their base camps in a joint operation. B52s are out because the SOBs are in there amongst women and children. I suspect that we will soon see more manufactured IEDs from Iran used there too. With the Taliban, we are fighting a belief, its the belief that has to be destroyed. This will go on for years, once we leave its back to the same ole same ole there.
As my Afghan friend here told me, its better to live here and not to worry who is coming next to kill you. He is a Pushtun and he has no desire to return there.