Robert Scheer

Editor, Truthdig.com; Author, 'The Great American Stickup'

What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth.

Erica Gaston

Human rights lawyer based in Kabul, Afghanistan

Addressing civilian harm is now one of ISAF's key counterinsurgency tools, but with the level of accumulated mistrust over the lack of disclosure illustrated by these war logs, it may be coming 9 years too late.

Doug Sarro

Law Student

Even if we achieved the goal we are apparently trying to achieve in Afghanistan--victory over the Taliban--it wouldn't put an end to international terrorism&mdash. It likely wouldn't even put a dent in it.

Joe Favorito

Branding consultant

In many places across the country, Ron Barr's interviews on the syndicated SportsByline USA radio network have been the soundtrack and the touchstone for hundreds of thousands of sports fans.

Mike Bonifer

CEO, Gamechangers

This is an analysis of the Afghanistan War through the lens of improvisation. Improvisation isn't inherently comedic. As conceived by the godmother of modern improvisation, Viola Spolin, it is the practice of spontaneous communication and fast learning.

Steve Clemons

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

With occasional blind spots aside, Biden's policy breadth is impressive compared to virtually anyone else on the Obama team. Only Bob Gates comes close to Biden's versatility -- and even there, Biden wins hands down.

Tom Engelhardt

Editor, TomDispatch.com

The present discussion of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan makes little sense. They are being presented as a kind of either/or option -- kill us or kill them -- when it would be more accurate to say that it's a neither/nor situation.

Chris Weigant

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Obama, after gaining a bit in his average approval ratings in May, slipped back in June. But the reversal was slight, continuing a five-month streak of amazingly stable numbers.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Rabbi and Writer

Why aren't I grateful to Al Gore for highlighting the environment? Simply put, he overdid it. Stopping a rainforest from being decimated is still subordinate to stopping genocide.

HuffPost Radio

This week, host Mark Green asked the women: Did Kagan sound like a radical elitist, or a super-smart charmer? Who'll decide if we start leaving Afghanistan in a year -- Obama or Petraeus? And, do we spy in Russia?

Lesleyann Coker

Freelance journalist, co-author 'Boob Tube'

What do General Stanley McChrystal and Helen Thomas have in common? Both were fired for exercising their right to free speech.

Rev. Chuck Freeman

Founder and President, The Free Souls Project

I am not anti-military, but I do patriotically resist America's imperial armed forces. I do abhor selling five times more weapons of destruction than the next five nations combined.

James Denselow

Writer, Middle East geopolitical and security issues

How can any western official claim to have the best interests of the Afghans at heart when they don't even know how many they've killed?

John Brown

Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University

General McChrystal is now history, unless he goes on a campaign to get overweight American kids to eat, as he apparently does, only one meal a day, wh...

Lorelei Kelly

I like revolutions

Barring an open and democratic dialogue about what our military is for in today's world we'll continue to have frustrated Generals and we'll risk more lives.

Joseph A. Palermo

Associate professor, historian, author

Congress has failed to ask the tough questions about the Afghanistan war and has instead given the American people a steady stream of platitudes about "winning" what can never be won.