The Wiki leaks of Afghanistan war

Almost 91,000 documents have been allegedly leaked out regarding the Afghanistan war and it seems that there is nothing important that was not known earlier, although now it is somewhat official. The gist of the documents deals with how we are not winning the war (whatever the criteria that is based on), that Pakistan is helping the insurgents and the like. The founder of the website that leaked these documents promises to release more of it in the future plus more of the documents on the Iraq War. The American officials have condemned it and the Pakistanis have shrugged it aside. Although the leaked documents are old but the U.S. officials are saying it will endanger the work of the spies hired by them in Afghanistan.

As I wrote it before, Afghanistan is not Iraq and as such would need to have an entirely different approach to war notwithstanding the surge in troops. The criteria of what it means to win the war should be defined and stick to it rather than change it with each success or failure in the war. The timetable of troop withdrawal to appease the public should be shelved immediately since this is a war and not some TV episode that will end in two to three episodes. Here Pakistan is the key and we should be focusing more there since any failure in Pakistan would bound to have repercussions in Afghanistan. As for the leaked documents, only the most curious would find the time to read all of it and still would not find any thing which has not been said before. So we should get past it and focus on the real war.