The extravagantly premature and positive claims for Operation Moshtarak (Together) in Helmand Province are neither convincing nor worth debating.  Again, who is the audience for this demonstration of insincere cheerfulness alongside the Hamid Karzai appointed stooges?  The clue that all is not credible is the governor of Helmand Province, seated beside the American op in the tie.  I can hear the State Department memos, the AID power point, the cash transfers back in Kabul.  The opium trade in Helmand does not work unless Kandahar and Kabul are paid.  Now ISAF proposes to reduce the cash crop by scattering the Taliban guards and intimidating the farmers.  Fairy tales.  We could transfer every family in Helmand to Hawaii and replace them with actors and still the Karzai mob would find a way to their cut.   ISAF is in league with the wrong gangsters.  The Chinese have moved into Islamabad to control the pipeline route from Iran.  The Pashtuns work for their opium contacts in Quetta and Karachi.   The American military is way outside the wire, wandering around in the backyard of Chinese adventurism.  There is a way to survive this maelstrom in Central Asia.  The first smart move is to back off and reinforce India.  Instead, we are walking into video for the enemy.  Who is the enemy?  That is a fresh problem.  Too many to count.