In the past few days in the general media I've heard threads of criticism of General McCrystal's un-published report which seem to infer that it is possible to easily Cherry Pick different parts (stand alone tactics) of the overall strategy and use these and throw out the less politically palatable ones.  Great care should be taken on this course of action.  It may be probable that if one does this that one will un-ravel the entire strategy.   From my standpoint I believe that within COIN warfare success depends on the proper and timely execution of seemingly un-related tactics.  What I perhaps over simplify as CAP (protect the population), Stingray (with economy of force undermine/ destroy guerrilla safe havens, resources, and lines of communication) and Phoenix (attack enemy political, financial, intelligence, and military chains of command) is my way of expressing the general tasks that need to be accomplished in COIN warfare.  My three (only three) pillars of wisdom if you will;).   Anyhow if we under commit to the accomplishment of these tasks we risk accomplishing nothing in the long run and endangering Afghanistan and eventually Pakistan.  IMHO this is not the time or place for Washington political log rolling.  This is a real War, peoples lives hang in the balance, not a debate.