Azeem Ibrahim

Executive Chairman, The Scotland Institute

Nine years after the start of the war, the Taliban controls 70% of Afghanistan. Though it is heart-rending to consider abandoning the progress that has been made, the truth is that there simply is no military solution.

Derrick Crowe

Political Director, Brave New Foundation

We've been making progress for nine-plus years now, progress into the deadliest year for U.S. troops since the war began, progress into record levels of suicide terrorism directed at Americans. No more progress, please.

Robert Greenwald

Filmmaker, Brave New Foundation

Can anyone name a single way in which this war still serves the national interest, if it ever did? We talked to a group of veterans of the conflict, and their answer was a very clear, "no."

Barrett Brown

Author: Flock of Dodos

Krauthammer's record of predictions in the realm of foreign policy is so horrid that it would probably surprise even many of his detractors.

Russ Baker

Thinking Hard. Digging Deep.

For almost four decades, under cover of his supposedly "objective" reporting, Woodward has represented the viewpoints of the military and intelligence establishments. Often he has done so in the context of complex inside maneuvering.

Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Host of The Kathleen Wells Show, KCAAradio.com

Prince Abdul Ali Seraj is a direct descendant of nine generations of kings of Afghanistan, and also the president of the National Coalition for Dialogue with Tribes of Afghanistan Here we discuss President Karzai.

Robert Brenner

Satirist, Ventriloquist, Porkatarian

As that great military strategist Sarah Palin once said, "I am merely attacking from a different direction."

Rory O'Connor

Author, 'Friends, Followers and the Future'

High military officials and their media accomplices ardently oppose pullouts in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and the president is either unwilling or simply unable to confront them.

Fred Branfman

Developer, trulyalive.org

Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security.

Jonathan Kim

Film Critic for ReThink Reviews and the Uprising Show

I talked with director Amir Bar-Lev about why Americans weren't more outraged when it was revealed that the made-for-Hollywood stories of Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies.

Reese Schonfeld

Television journalist

General McChrystal needed a way out of what was becoming for him an unbearable burden: the conflict between the best interests of his country and the best interests of the soldiers who served under him.

Josh Mull

Afghanistan Blogging Fellow, Brave New Foundation/The Seminal Citizen Journalist

It's too bad that General Petraeus is attempting to suppress democratic opinion. But Congress, and the people running for Congress, understand full well that this is a fight the American people are ready to have.

Mary Tillman

Mother of Pat Tillman

Over the last five years the Pentagon and Congress have had numerous opportunities to hold accountable those responsible for the cover-up of my son Pat's death. Each time they've failed.

David Bromwich

Professor of Literature at Yale

To say America now acts as if we need a war may underrate the syndrome. We seem to require three wars at a given time: a war to be getting out of, a war we're in the middle of, and a war we aim to step into.

Steve Clemons

Editor at Large of The Atlantic and founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.

Allowing the Pentagon to continue to block Hastings reinforces the notion that he was the bad guy in this -- not the person who was fired by the President of the United States.

Virginia M. Moncrieff

Foreign correspondent.

I have seen plenty of leaked material over my career and I know that 'leaked' adds a patina of mystery and capital-I Importance to documents that is sometimes not deserved.