It's well past time to throw this stinking mess overboard and move on. It's not going to get better no matter how much money the US throws at it. If anything, the US billions going there only make the problems worse because it feeds the problem. BBC:
Corruption in Afghanistan has doubled in the two years since 2007, according to a survey by anti-corruption charity Integrity Watch.
Afghans paid nearly $1bn (£658m) in bribes in 2009, with almost a third of those surveyed saying they had had to pay a bribe to obtain a public service.
More than half said state corruption was fuelling the Taliban's growth.
The average cost of a bribe was $180, which can be many months salary in one of the poorest countries in the world.
