Nato strategy for leaving Afghanistan by 2015 is in disarray but David Cameron is still sending British soldiers to kill and die in a war that is both pointless and lost.

More days of pointless carnage in Afghanistan left nine NATO soldiers dead -- four of them green-on-blue attacks -- and eight woman and girls collecting firewood killed by NATO.

The Royal Family has traditionally dressed up in uniforms to pretend that we're all in this together. That's why Prince Harry's return is being so widely publicised.

The NATO countries dumbly soldier on killing and being killed even though the situation is clearly spinning out of control and almost everybody hates the US-backed Afghan government.

As 'green-on-blue' attacks by members of the Afghan military and police increase, Washington scratches its head over why locals would continue to shoot the hand that liberates them.

Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind.

Crisis point has been reached as Afghan soldiers and police are turning their guns on Nato troops who are supposedly working with them and training them to take over in three years time.

After eleven years, more than four-hundred billion dollars spent and two thousand Americans dead, this is what the US has built: a deeply dysfunctional, predatory Afghan state.

An Afghan man has started legal proceedings against the UK government demanding details of how a secret "kill list" was compiled that led to a missile attack that murdered five of his relatives.

The green-on-blue killing of foreign troops is a primal Afghan scream of rejection of the American and NATO presence by people who have known little but bloodshed and destruction for over 30 years.

"I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk," says US General McChrystal. "You make that decision and everybody has skin in the game."

For every nameless victim of a US hellfire missile fired by a pilot singing "Bye-bye Miss American Pie", there are hundreds of thousands more killed in America's wars of aggression.

How is Obama going to ask one of his soldiers to be the last man to die in Afghanistan or a soldier of any country which have soldiers being killed and maimed for nothing?

What women all over Afghanistan really need is an end to war, real security, respect for the law, food, clean water, and access to education. That would be authentic progress.

Much as the government tries to hide from the British public how disastrous the war in Afghanistan has become, most people can see the reality and want the troops home now.

Governments find it easier to sugar-coat their strategic failures than confront them head-on -- deferring taking responsibility, failing to recognise mistakes, ignoring hard lessons.