In your opinion, what would be the best way to end the War in Afghanistan and be able to call it success all around?

There is no correct answer.

Problem #1 Do most Afghani's consider themselves Afghani's, or are their primary political loyalties regional, tribal, or clan?

Never should have gone to stay. It should have been locate, isolate, destroy, and depart. Repeat as often as necessary.

Go back a thousand years and start over? It's like the rest that have been going on that long. The opium issue is larger than most admit because of global demand. You can't go into a country that is still living in the past and take away one of their mainstay livelihoods without giving them viable alternatives - that they want. And they don't want them. The religious issues are a factor as well. A larger question is are we the ones that should be doing it? Is anyone? We're now hearing of the interest in their natural resources such as minerals, but does another country have the right to basically seize assets just because they want or feel the need to? Anybody that envisions wholesale brick and mortar capitalism for them is dreaming. For the most part they are happy with things as they are and will resist relentlessly any colonization. We can take out the Taliban and suppress the more radical factions in the east, but that is only a temporary measure because they will come back. You can't win hearts and minds that are mostly content with the current state of affairs. No suburbs in the sticks for them. No assembly plants. No strip malls or service sector. All we are doing now is trying to bomb them off a few huts at a time, so at a certain point you have to ask yourself why you're even doing it to begin with. What is the mission anyway? To expend ammo and kill bad guys it would seem, and that's an open-ended strategy without a finish line. Not every country wants to be like us, and especially when they see how our experiment is working out ethically, financially and otherwise. Best way to end it would have been to never have started it and learning a lesson from those that have failed in the past. For now, either go all in or all out, because what we have done and are doing is just a drain on our blood and treasure without any clear "mission accomplished". It's an equation with at least one too many variables and therefore is unlikely to be solved. History should have shown us this.

We went there to get bin Laden - he ended up in Pakistan. We got him. Mission success. Get the hell out of Afghanistan. There is no other success there. We can't change cultures overnight and if the people there don't want to change it on their own that's their fight. Not ours.