Meanwhile in Afghanistan

Long War: While street battles in Egypt have the world's attention the real war in Afghanistan roars on. And in Afghanistan the bad guys are losing. Hundreds of Taliban fighters have surrendered in the past couple months. Special Forces night strikes are killing huge numbers of bad guy leaders, so many in fact that new leaders are not filling the ranks swiftly enough to keep bad guy fighting units intact. This is why so many low level fighters are surrendering and why the gravity of the war is shifting north.
The mainstream media is furious that there is progress on the ground in Afghanistan. Stories reporting recent progress are far and few between. And any mention of progress is quickly followed by interviews and quotes from aid agencies doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan. The aid agencies all say that conditions are worse than ever. The more the Taliban takes it on the chin the more it targets aid workers.
US Army Gen. Rodriguez says that we should expect this trend to increase as well as assassination attempts on Afghan government officials as well as other classic terror techniques. He says that the Taliban will at some point stop fighting the US and Afghan Army entirely, cede control over what territory they currently run, and go 100% underground. They would then be like any other terrorist organization, relying on hidden roadside bombs and suicide strikes.
In the past the Taliban have profited from foreign aid flowing into the country. Their subjects are getting free medical care and irrigation canals, what's not to like? But now the free irrigation canals are considered a deadly threat by the Taliban. What does that tell you?
All of this is capped by a new information campaign spearheaded by Gen. Petraeus that is telling the world how deadly the Taliban is to civilians. The US Army in the past was afraid to hammer this point home because it caused Afghan civilians to lose morale. Now it pisses them off and makes them want to kill Taliban.