Christine Fair, professor of foreign service, on why the fixation on troop levels in Afghanistan is the wrong focus:

"Here, the discussion centers around how many more troops should we send, when we should be talking about how to get the Afghan government to clean up its act. More troops can't fix this. The only reason we are talking about this is that's the one element we can control."

Afghans on Troop Surge Debate: It's the Corruption, Stupid.

September 23, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor