Can someone who defends these drone attacks please identify the purpose? Isn't it painfully obvious that however many “militants” we're killing, we're creating more and more all the time?

Howard Dean, former Democratic Party leader, tells Obama the Afghanistan war is not winnable, the Kabul government is corrupt, and Karzai is almost as bad on women's rights as the Taliban.

This is not a story of a few rogue soldiers, says Malalai Joya. The brutal actions of these "kill teams" reveal the aggression and racism of the entire military occupation. While these photos are new, the murder of innocents is not.

Bringing democracy to Muslim countries, grinning at the camera, US soldiers take trophy pictures of Afghans they have killed in acts of pre-meditated murder.

In Afghanistan, children are bombed. They lie in pools of blood until family members realize, one by one, that their children are not late in returning home but in fact never will.

Gary Younge says American soldiers are not so much dying for their country, but because of it, in a war that hasn't brought liberty, democracy or stability and which has killed untold thousands of civilians.

The US and Britain have lost the legitimacy and trust necessary to find resolution to Afghanistan war, says Tory MP

How can a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen in turbans, fighting only part-time, battle the world's most powerful armed forces to a standstill?.

Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama has put George W Bush's warmongering in the shade, not least in the drone attacks on Pakistan.

Obama says Afghanistan is "on track to achieve our goals". It isn't, as the CIA, Red Cross, 15 Afghanistan experts and 60% of Americans have told him.

The war is a catastrophe and the US and its allies should get out now, say 15 experts on Afghanistan, in an open letter to President Obama.

The blood and treasure being wasted in Afghanistan is an investment in nothing more worthy than saving Nato's face, says Andrew Murray, chair of Stop the War.

Britain's head of the armed forces, General Sir David Richards, was only echoing politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when he said we'll occupy Afghanistan for 30-40 years. We used to call it imperialism.

David Cameron says we'll be out of Afghanistan by 2015. His army chief, Gen Sir David Richards says there will be at least thirty more years of war.

Britain's former special envoy to Afghanistan tells parliament the UK's Afghan policy was 'misleadingly optimistic'. A British army officer who told his superiors that the strategy in Afghanistan wasn't working, was ordered to change his report to make it more positive.

The true meaning of the poppy is being forgotten when it's used to support current wars and stifle criticism, says Ben Griffin, former SAS soldier.