New Afghanistan strategy… that new?

After having read the whole McChrystal report on Afghanistan and intentions for the US strategy there… the best of what I understand about the whole thing is that it is, well, nothing new. Perhaps, since after all the thing got released to the public somehow, the good parts are missing. And by ‘good parts’ I only mean the parts that direct our attention and our troops towards getting the ‘bad guys’. I am aware that there is a need to assist the Afghan government and the Afghan people in building a reliable, trustworthy government and creating safety and opportunity and all that jazz… however, isn’t it a hell of a lot simpler to accomplish such lofty goals after the threat to everyday life as it is now over there is eliminated? … ooh perhaps eliminated is too harsh a Bush-era term… however, that having already been said by none other than myself…. was that not the intention of our entering into Afghanistan… to eliminate those posing the greatest threat to the US and our interests and the safety of the Afghan people? Perhaps I lost track somewhere and just made that up, out of the blue, ya know.
In summary, the intention as I read and understood of the McChrystal report, is to hold the hand of the Afghan government and build some sort of institution with which we can work in tandem with to, well… that part was missing. I can only assume that it would be the obvious “get the bad guys”. I, however, before having read the report, was hoping and assuming that the “getting the bad guys” part was going to be proactive, serious, and in the “git er done” spirit… at least more so than it seems to have been reported by the general.
Yes, all the things that he suggests are highly imperative to success in Afghanistan… but, um, so is right out fire power… ya know, military action to take care of the things that need taken care of… the things that are causing the deaths of US soldiers.
We do have the military capability to handle this, like the US has historically been known to handle the bad guys… why do we not? We should. Those drones and the video game playing bad asses that fly them… where are they, and they should be there droning the landscape with strategically fired…. well you know. I might sound a little excited about the “wham, we’re done” factor that the US could achieve, however there is a happy and acceptable medium somewhere between that and, “well, maybe (scuffle scuffle) we should just go” that could possibly accommodate the goals of the US, Afghanistan, and keep everyone safe.

ahh… wishful thinkin?