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.

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.