"Of Course We Can Win in Afghanistan"

Anne Applebaum posted an article in Slate yesterday with the above title. Ms. Applebaum is in Afghanistan writing about patrolling with some NATO troops. She writes about the Afghani insurgents:

These groups cannot dislodge a Dutch or American base, they cannot rule the country, and they cannot win mass popular support. But with a handful of weapons and some homemade bombs, they can make the coalition forces in Afghanistan pay a high price for their good intentions—and erode support for the Afghan mission in foreign capitals.

Ms. Applebaum fails to write about how many Afghani civilians NATO troops have killed since the occupation so many years ago. She also fails to mention US and NATO forces cannot rule or win mass political support in Aghanistan either, nor why the native insurgents cannot.