From a review by Ahmed Rashid (“Afghanistan: On the Brink” in the New York Review of Books) that also addresses Greg Mortenson (a mountain climber turned philanthropist who became famous with his book “Three cups of tea”) and Ann Jones and her criticism on Robert Kaplan (whose book “Soldiers of God” according to her “sometimes read[s] like fan mail, tinged with a kind of homoerotic glorification of manliness, yet safely homoerotic because these tough, fierce, idealized bearded warriors seemed the very pinnacle of macho masculinity.” – a criticism I can at least partly agree with although not on the grounds of feminism as Rashid claims for Jones) I turned towards another assessment by Barnett Rubin – his pragmatic comments on the targets set by the US and during the Bonn conference, written in 2006 but already addressing many points some pundits pretend to have invented only recently (read the CFR report also as PDF for free).

A document he refers to extensively is the Afghanistan National Development Strategy by the Afghan government, a document I haven’t read yet (it includes 234 pages) but which has been acclaimed by international experts as outstanding for the standards of developing countries.

The outcome from the conference, including all projected targets is also available at CFR.

Also PBS covered the Bonn conference, albeit without video material as far as I could grasp.