If Afghans are ever to rebuild their world, the United States must end its war and occupation.read more

Obama is pulling a lethal switcheroo by preparing to stay beyond 2014.read more

The president’s rhetoric was hideous. “The tide of war is receding,” he said. But war is not a fact of nature, like an ocean. It is a rash act of rulers.read more

Despite the gloss from Michael O'Hanlon and the New York Times, Iraq and Afghanistan aren't going well.read more

Obama’s statements about Afghanistan this week, like Johnson’s in 1967, were designed as a PR ploy.read more

While the U.S. occupying forces in Afghanistan brag about their increased power to kill, the Afghan people grow hungrier and angrier.read more

Afghanistan is proving to be an unsalvageable mess. And the 93,000 U.S. troops are stuck in a no-win situation.read more

Petraeus is doing what his commander in chief wants him to do: to give Obama room to retreat from his withdrawal pledge last December.read more

We, as Americans, need to know the facts of this impossible and immoral war the United States is waging.read more

Given the state of the ruling elite in Afghanistan, it’s not hard to imagine how this bounty would quickly turn into the much-dreaded "resource curse."read more

With the United States stuck in that country for at least another year, and with the casualties mounting recently, we are likely to see many more deaths of American servicemembers.read more

The die was cast when the Obama Administration decided to swallow its reservations and accept the results of the rigged Afghan presidential elections last year.read more

The U.S. is not waging a war against Al Qaeda anymore—and hasn’t been for years. It’s taking sides in a civil war. And by asserting that the outcome is “absolutely necessary, absolutely essential to America’s safety and security,” Obama guarantees a longer war.read more