The intensity of the ten-year-old war is growing and U.N. figures show the Afghan government and its Western allies are further than ever from a solid grip on security.

Had there been no invasion of Afghanistan by the US and its allies on 7 October 2001, Pakistan would not be in the dreadful situation in which it now finds itself.

The bomb in a turban that killed Afghanistan's former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also killed America's plan to make a deal with the Taliban as a way to get out of a war that is going nowhere.

Afghans are protesting across the country against US "kill-or-capture" night raids: "They claim to be against terrorists but what they are doing is terrorism. It spreads terror. It creates more violence.”

Serving US lieutenant-colonel says there is a huge disconnect between Pentagon propaganda and the reality in Afghanistan as faced by troops on the ground.

The Lemming Syndrome makes Obama describe the US casualties as "lost," "fallen," or "ultimate sacrifice", instead of the hard truth: they're dead and he is responsible for snuffing out their young lives.

If Richard Falk is right, the anti-war movement in the US and Britain has much work to do yet, whatever promises Obama and Cameron make about getting out of Afghanistan by 2015.

Sadaullah was 15 when the missiles, aimed at a militant leader who was never there, struck a family gathering, killing his wheelchair-bound uncle and two cousins. When he woke up in hospital, he was missing both legs and an eye.

Since it's politically and legally difficult to torture like we used to, there is less reason to seek to capture rather than kill, says Obama advisor defending drone attacks. + Jemima Khan video on drone warfare

The rosy picture of "progress" in Afghanistan is shot to hell, as the narrow group of criminal entrepreneurs the US has relied on in Afghanistan, are picked off by the Taliban.

Jesse McClaren says the horrific crimes of Anders Behring Breivik have exposed the consequences of war and Islamophobia; to counter this, we need to follow Martin Luther King and wage war on poverty, racism, and militarism.

A war that was never justified, continues to be waged after ten years, with ever escalating loss of life among the Afghan people and the invading forces, despite everyone knowing it is unwinnable.

US drone strikes in Pakistan have risen from one a year in 2004 to one every four days under President Obama. Despite all the evidence of civilian deaths, the US insists drone strikes are 'the most accurate weapon in history'.

Sadaullah lost one eye and both legs in a US drone strike on Pakistan. He was lucky. His wheelchair-bound uncle and two cousins were all killed. The US said they were Taliban militants.

There are no "signs of progress" in Afghanistan. More Afghans are dying. Violence is at the highest levels yet in the 10-year conflict. Security is worse now than it was before Obama's repeated escalations.

The US drones Pakistan, violates its sovereignty, kill its citizens, ignores international law. But, says Tariq Ali, the only way to bring stability is to get out of Afghanistan.