Analysts Find Little New in WikiLeaks Afghan Docs
Are they really the next Pentagon Papers?
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai isn't ready to give up his financially beneficial relationship with the CIA just yet. No, he wants those backpacks full from cash to keep coming.
Are they really the next Pentagon Papers?
From Pakistani involvement to al-Qaeda match-making
As elite opinion turns against a troop-intensive counterinsurgency strategy, Obama has a decision to make
President Karzai's announcement spurs the debate
Ethical and operational cases against the pain gun
General Petraeus's big new idea
Convinced yet?
Will the military persuade her to support the war?
The RNC chair "is backtracking so fast, he’s going to be in Kabul fighting here pretty soon"
Did Hastings, the embedded reporter, mislead McChrystal?
The general faces a tough mission
And how it won't
The top general's days could be numbered
Pessimism grows in D.C. policy circles
The New York Times reports there are $1 trillion in deposits
Slow progress in a key Afghan province
The high stakes of today's White House meeting
The BBC and Red Cross confirm long-held suspicions
Balancing civilian casualties against the damage to al-Qaeda
The Afghan president appears to be chilling to the West
Obama revokes an invitation, he meets with Ahmadinejad
Diplomacy, outreach, and maybe his best speech yet
Four stars, two cameras, one whiteboard
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's 30 years of brutal war
The U.S. and Taliban are popular, the Afghan government isn't
Without Mullah Baradar, the Taliban's options are running out
Ambassador Eikenberry blocks the military's contentious strategy of hiring local militias
Fox's Greg Palkot gets a little carried away narrating his Afghanistan trip
Matt Yglesias crunches some numbers on Afghanistan
General Stanley McChrystal calls his capture essential to victory
The thirteen things Congress should ask McChrystal and Eikenberry
Experts want answers from General McChrystal and Ambassador Eikenberry during their testimony this week
Key officials take to the airwaves, emphasizing that the Afghanistan troop pull-out will be a "ramp" not a "cliff"
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