The deep costs of the Afghanistan war are not a matter of partisan bickering, which is remarkable given the climate in America's politics today.

The same day that Afghanistan became the longest war in U.S. history, NATO had its worst day for casualties this year, and we learned U.S. taxpayer dollars are ending up in the hands of the Taliban.

Why doesn't Richard Holbrooke apply some of his hunger for technical academic precision to the question of how we can actually end this war and bring our troops home?

After 104 months of war, the last 12 of which saw the U.S. triple the number of troops in Afghanistan, attempted terror attacks against our country are at an all-time high.

Peter Galbraith is right. Propping up Hamid Karzai and his cronies isn't worth the lives of our young men and women. It never was. With friends like these, who needs insurgents?

Now is not the time for silence. 1,000 Americans are dead in Afghanistan in a war that's not making us safer -- many others are wounded and deranged, because we continue to choose military action as the solution to a political problem.

These were people's sons and daughters, husbands and wives, moms and dads. Our hearts go out to all of their families. One thousand troops are dead, and our leaders have nothing to show for it but the prospect of another thousand dead.

Thanks to Bush, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been a massive waste of human life and treasure. Let's not let the Obama administration make the same mistake again in Afghanistan.

A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civil...

On Sunday, NATO forces in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan killed more than thirty civilians, including women and children, when an airstrike was ordered on three minivans.

The hype surrounding "precision guided munitions" is one of the reasons Americans feel so free to go to war in civilian areas, and it's one of the most pernicious pieces of misinformation spread by the pro-war crowd.

War spending is exempt from the president's proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama's statement at West Point that, "we can't simply afford to ignore the price of these wars."