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.

Drone Wars UK says it is Kafkaesque of the MoD to claim only four civilians have been killed in UK drone strikes while insisting they do not know how many people have been killed.

According to Pentagon statistics, the 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of 2012 far outdistance the US forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 per cent more.

If Hillary Clinton and other world leaders are on the side of Afghan women, they should not support the war and the leaders who are actively engaged in violating women's rights.

NATO is an anachronism. Instead of trying to bolster the organization, we should begin serious discussions to dismantle it.

The NATO conference will be nothing but spin to hide the facts: the war in Afghanistan is lost, the only purpose now is to save the face of the warmongers who started it.

No wonder most Americans want out of Afghanistan: since the Obama troop "surge" in Afghanistan three years ago, it's been one fiasco, embarrassment, or atrocity after the other.