Outside the Beltway

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

The war in Afghanistan has not been a topic of discussion in the Presidential campaign, but that’s largely because there’s not much left to talk about.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Wolf Blitzer just observed that the fact that the president has to take these “extraordinary security precautions” to enter Afghanistan proves how far we still have to go in Afghanistan.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

The consequences of ten years of war?

The latest round of protests in Afghanistan prove yet again that it’s time for us to leave.

Mitt Romney’s statements about the planned early draw down in Afghanistan make no sense whatsoever.

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

Our good friend Hamid Karzai, contemplating a war between the United States and our good allies Pakistan, says that he would of course fight with Pakistan.

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

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

A disastrous day for American troops in Afghanistan.

While it’s true that the South and the Heartland disproportionately contribute to our all-volunteer force, the notion that our forces are mostly Nebraska farmboys is false.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

David Petraeus’ 1987 PhD dissertation:After all, if a country with relatively few public opinion concerns or moral compunctions about its tactics cannot beat a bunch of ill-equipped Afghan tribesmen, what does that say about the ability of the United States — with its domestic constraints, statutory limitations, moral inhibition, and zealous investigative reporters — to carry out a successful action against a guerrilla force?

If we allow the possible reaction of the most dogmatic, evil people who might hear the message to govern our expression, we don’t have freedom at all.

Todays’ horrific attack on the UN complex in Mazar-i Sharif may well the the Tet Offensive of Afghanistan: a relatively minor event that permanently changed the American public’s view of the war.

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

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

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

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