This is actually, one of the best articles I have read and posted here.
The subject is quite intriguing in that, we went to Afghanistan because the Taliban essentially harbored Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda. Now, perhaps, we are making a deal with them. Heck, it would be 15 more years of war... and we will likely, from the article, have troops remaining there for the foreseeable future. It's not winning the war but it's not losing it either. Sort of the point of the article.