RAF pilots in Las Vegas are directing pilotless drones that fire missiles at the Taliban in Afghanistan. Civilians have been killed, but a wing commander says "we are comfortable legally with what we are doing."

It was meant to be David Cameron's mission-soon-to-be-accomplished visit to Afghanistan. Instead the spin was upstaged by yet another UK soldier killed and 'security' concerns cancelling his trip to Lashkar Gah.

Obama's troop "surge" is clearly failing: the United Nations reports violence up 51 percent, civilian deaths and injuries up, number of refugees up.

The only reason we're given for being in Afghanistan is that we must keep the al-Qaida terrorists' network from establishing bases there. But -- like bin Laden -- al-Qaida left Afghanistan years ago.

Obama's troop withdrawals only mark a continuing war and occupation that is wasteful and deadly, with no end to America's 'war on terror' in sight.

Karl Eikenberry, US ambassador in Afghanistan, says "America has never sought to occupy any nation in the world. We are a good people." Try telling that to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.

It is morally sordid to watch the continued destruction of another country and of the lives of young people from our own, without doing what we can to force our government to bring it to an end. 

As Nato prepares to transfer control of parts of the country to Afghan forces in the 'secure' north, riots, suicide bombings and high-profile killings point to an ominous decline in security.

What price BBC "impartiality", which bans the words "Free Palestine" but allows DJ Tim Westwood to parade a perverse desire to prolong the war in Afghanistan?

CIA missile attacks by unmanned drones against alleged ‘terrorist’ targets inside Pakistan invariably end up killing civilians, and arousing furious anti-American sentiment.

A bereaved father asks if his son gave his life in a cause worth fighting for. A serving soldier on leave from the war replies: Was your sons death a price worth paying? Were my friends lives a price worth paying? For me, no.

Obama administration insiders are calling the war "simply not sustainable" at its current cost and are not asking "is the strategy working?" but "can we afford this?"

So we're in Afghanistan to bring Freedom and Democracy to the Afghan People, but the country's president has no power to tell us to stop bombing Afghan homes.

Obama and David Cameron say we're making "progress" in the war. Does that include the sharp increase in the number of Afghan soldiers or policemen turning their weapons on western troops?

If there's "progress" in Afghanistan and the "Taliban's momentum" has been broken, why are there more Afghan civilians and Nato soliders being killed than in any previous year of the war?

Former British ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, says the tactics in Afghanistan of General David Petraeus are counter-productive, profoundly wrong and reminiscent of Vietnam.