I don't want to play a semantics game, but your explanation doesn't make it sound like they have that country under control. The Taliban and al-Qaeda are, according to the link, operational inside Afghanistan. The bogey man hasn't been found and I think the one eyed loony is still on the loose. The warlords aren't just hanging out and playing cards. As warlords are wont to do, they seem to be warring. There are 27 thousand troops there but it still sounds like the wild west.
That's what the CNN article that you linked to says.
If that's satisfactory control, then I guess the whole "let's get rid of the terrorists and rebuild this failed state" was a lot of hot air. The terrorists are still there and the nation is not rebuilding.
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