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"Schools are a much more effective bang for the buck than missiles or chasing some Taliban around the country," says Mr. Mortenson, who is an Army veteran.
He has advocated working to secure major population centers rather than using NATO troops to chase the Taliban around the Afghan countryside.
It got a boost in July when the United Nations passed Resolution 1617, which clears the way for governments to cut off support networks of al-Qaeda and the Taliban around the world.
"On a Friday before prayers you see the Taliban driving around in the Land Cruisers and pick-ups.
Already, in the past year or so, at least five hundred and fifty schools have been closed in Taliban strongholds around the country.
A Pakistani man who had been fighting with the Taliban came around the other side and began speaking in Urdu, the language of Pakistan.
To the frustration of the northerners, America seems to have held off from bombing Taliban positions around the Bagram airfield, just north of Kabul; if these positions were bombed, the capital might swiftly fall.Widening war-aims?The Pushtun leaders could change their minds about joining in, of course, if the Taliban were to retreat or, better still, fall apart.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Besides well-reported advances in southern provinces, American and NATO forces have also been able to halt or reverse Taliban gains around the capital, Kabul, and even in the north and west of the country, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted that American troops would probably be wounded, killed or taken prisoner in what he said would be a sustained pursuit of Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders around the southern city of Kandahar and in the mountains south and west of Jalalabad.
So could CIA operatives operating remote-controlled drones targeting al Qaeda and Taliban leaders around the world.
The news prompted taliban from around the province to descend upon Arghandab, sparking one of the most intense battles of the entire Soviet occupation.
