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.

The network of US military bases in the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" that stretches from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and South/Central Asia is a key reason for remaining in Afghanistan forever. But it's not the only reason, says Pepi Escobar.

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.