Everything the critics say about the decision is right–and so is the decision.

Tensions between Pakistan and the U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan are threatening to turn even more sour today after an apparent friendly fire incident: Pakistani officials on Saturday accused NATO of conducting a helicopter attack on two military checkpoints at the northwestern border with Afghanistan, in strikes that military officials said killed at least 25 [...]

On Thursday, Politico published a little-noticed story in which the deputy commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan unloaded on the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai: Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller, deputy commander of the American-led NATO effort to train and equip Afghan security forces, told POLITICO in an interview that top leaders in the Afghan government [...]

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

The U.S. military says it has carried out a mission that has killed the person responsible for shooting down a Chinook helicopter and killing 30 American soldiers: An American airstrike has killed the Taliban fighters believed responsible for shooting down a Chinook helicopter, killing 38 people including 30 American military personnel, the senior commander in [...]

The London Telegraph is reporting claims by an unnamed Afghan official that, if true, just make the loss of 30 Americans even worse it sounded on Saturday: A helicopter which crashed killing 30 US troops in Afghanistan was shot down after the Taliban laid a trap to lure US forces into the area, an Afghan [...]

A potential game changer in Afghanistan today came with the assassination of Hamid Karzai’s half-brother, who happens to be a powerful presences in southern Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan — The powerful half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday by a close family associate, according to Karzai family friends who were nearby. [...]

One of the main reasons why the United States has had to be continually careful about its response to the situation in Pakistan, and the policies of the Pakistani government, is because the land route through Pakistan has been our main supply route for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Now, after ten years, it looks like [...]

Florida Today’s Jeff Parker offers this take on President Obama’s Afghanistan “drawdown,” which will culminate in getting American forces down to Bush era levels by the end of 2012.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

The American public is increasingly skeptical of foreign adventurism. Why aren’t our political candidates reflecting that?

I’ve begun to wonder about the future of U. S. security policy. This isn’t a serious analytical post; it’s just what I call “musing”—committing disorganized thoughts to writing.

Now, he wants Congress to condemn the actions of one idiot in Florida: The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, appears to have added fuel to the violent protests in Afghanistan after calling on the US Congress to condemn a Christian preacher’s burning of the Qur’an. Karzai’s demand came despite a statement from Barack Obama denouncing the [...]

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

The spark that was lit when Terry Jones burned a Koran a few weeks ago has turned into a conflagration: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Violent protests over the burning of a Koran in Florida flared for a second straight day, with young men rampaging through the streets of this southern capital, flying Taliban flags and wielding [...]

Public support for the war in Afghanistan continues to plummet, but will that hurt the President when 2012 rolls around?

A new Rasmussen polls shows, yet again, that public support for the war in Afghanistan has slip into Iraq War territory: A majority of voters, for the first time, support an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan or the creation of a timetable to bring them all home within a year. A new [...]

Events like this are always tragic, and always a setback for any effort to win the hearts and minds of the populace: KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday [...]

Nine years into a war that seems to be without end, it’s time to declare victory and go home.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that the number of Americans who think we will eventually win the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low: Voter confidence in the outcome of the War in Afghanistan has fallen to a new low. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% of Likely [...]

A new poll of Afghan citizens shows that they don’t want us staying in their country much longer: Nationwide, more than half of Afghans interviewed said U.S. and NATO forces should begin to leave the country in mid-2011 or earlier. More Afghans than a year ago see the United States as playing a negative role [...]

Afghans in two crucial southern provinces are almost completely unaware of the September 11 attacks on the United States and don’t know they precipitated the foreign intervention now in its 10th year, a new report showed on Friday.

General David Petraeus is clearly not pleased by the remarks made over the weekend by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the American military presence in his country: KABUL – Gen. David H. Petraeus, the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, warned Afghan officials Sunday that President Hamid Karzai’s latest public criticism of U.S. strategy threatens to [...]

Hamid Karazi says that the United States needs to reduce it’s military presence in his country. Perhaps we should listen to him.

The military surge in Afghanistan appears to be having little impact on the Taliban.

We already knew that Hamid Karzai was corrupt, now we know he takes bribes from the Iranians.

A new CNN poll puts pubic support for the war in Afghanistan at it’s lowest level yet: American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been lower, according to the latest CNN polling. The low numbers just the latest figure in the complex math being calculated to determine how the US should proceed in [...]

While Americans concern themselves with domestic politics and mid-term elections, the situation in Pakistan seems to continue to get worse.

According to a new book from Bob Woorward, American policy in Afghanistan is the result of a decision making process that can only be described as chaotic at best.

Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections were marked by another round of allegations of widespread voter fraud, once again bringing to the forefront the question; what exactly are we trying to accomplish in Afghanistan ?

A US military platoon was apparently able to target innocent Afghans for murder. Without senior commanders suspecting a thing.

Regular readers know that I’ve long thought we’ve achieved all we’re going to in Afghanistan. But that doesn’t mean that our presence is therefore motivated by secret motives.

Steve Walt, Steve Clemons, Matthew Hoh and others have released a provocative new report arguing for a change in our Afghanistan strategy.

Either Obama’s Defense Secretary and commanding general are conspiring to undermine his July 11 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan or that they’re carrying out his intent.

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?

Pakistan’s President threw a grenade into the ongoing debate over the War in Afghanistan: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said the U.S. and its allies are losing the war in Afghanistan because they failed to win local support and think too short term, drawing a rebuke from the U.S. “The international community, of which Pakistan [...]

I see that Tom Friedman has come around to the position on Afghanistan I’ve held since late in 2001: We should limit our presence and goals in Afghanistan to the bare minimum required to make sure that turmoil there doesn’t spill over into Pakistan or allow Al Qaeda to return. 8+ years ain’t bad for [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t say whether she thinks the war in Afghanistan is worth the increasing toll on American blood and treasure.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

Three different ways they’re viewing the leaked “war logs” across the Pond.

Now we’re doubling down on the Karzai government.

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions on Afghanistan.

The Chairman of the RNC is expressing doubts about America’s war effort in Afghanistan.

Just a week after he was named to replace General Stanley McChrystal, the Senate has unanimously confirmed David Petraeus as the new commander of American forces in Afghanistan: General David Petraeus, the president’s pick to take over from Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the new commander of the troubled war in Afghanistan, was approved by the [...]

A new poll shows that a majority of the public favors President Obama’s decision to begin withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in July 2011: A majority of Americans favor President Barack Obama’s planned July 2011 timetable to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops, according to a new USA Today/Gallup Poll. Fifty-eight percent of the [...]

The odds that David Petraeus will be able to pull off a miracle in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq are very slim.

No official word yet, but this seems to confirm that General McChrystal is out: The White House is reviewing a list of possible replacements for Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who admitted to top Obama administration officials that he “compromised the mission” by making disparaging comments in a Rolling Stone interview. The embattled general met President Obama [...]

Stanley McChrystal is being called to face Obama’s national security team this morning. They should take the opportunity to come up with coherent Afghanistan policy.

Are we making too much of Stanley McChrystal’s remarks?