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.

The dead aren't the only British casualties in Afghanistan. Serious injuries are at record levels, with the number who have lost one or more limbs already higher than 2009.

The public are being urged to wear a poppy in support of "Our Heroes". There is nothing heroic about being blown up in a vehicle. There is nothing heroic about being shot in an ambush and there is nothing heroic about fighting in an unnecessary conflict.

The question should be not "What happens if we leave Afghanistan" but "What happens while we are in Afghanistan", says Afghan MP and women's rights' activist Malalai Joya.

The government says it will "remain fully committed to succeeding in the difficult mission in Afghanistan." Why, during the worst economic crisis in over half a century, is Afghanistan so central to its priorities?

US soldiers expose the farcical "exit strategy" to equip, train and handover to the Afghan army and police -- with rampant drug addiction and corruption, one in five soldiers deserting and those remaining often refusing to fight.

As ever increasing US drone attacks in Pakistan kill more civilians, people are queuing up to join the ranks of the "holy warriors" fighting the invading foreign armies.