Let's Look On The Bright Side.

At least things are going well in Afghanistan, and the Taliban is crippled and in hiding.

Oh, bugger.

Here's a particularly encouraging quote:

So numerous are the recruits that a tribal leader in southern Afghanistan, who did not want to be named because of the threat of suicide bombers, relayed an account of how one would-be suicide bomber was sent home and told to wait his turn because there were many in line ahead of him.

That is clearly a sign of last-throes desperation.