What is the military situation in Afghanistan? - The Taliban are winning in Afghanistan / Antonio Giustozzi - The Taliban are not winning in Afghanistan / Gregor Peter Schmitz and Jeremy Shapiro - The United States must increase its military presence in Afghanistan / David H. Petraeus - The United States should not send more troops to Afghanistan / H.D.S. Greenway - The United States should focus on Pakistan, not Afghanistan / Richard N. Haass - Afghan security forces must be made ready to take over military responsibilities / Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner - Afghan security forces will not soon be ready to take over military responsibilities / Greg Bruno - What is the status of human rights in Afghanistan? - The United States makes little effort to prevent civilian casualities in Afghanistan / Eliza Szabo - It is difficult for the United States to limit civilian casualties in Afghanistan / David Zucchino - The United States must stay in Afghanistan to fight for women's rights / Ellen Goodman - The U.S. presence in Afghanistan does little for women's rights / Anand Gopal - Freedom of the press is improving in Afghanistan / Saad Mohseni - Freedom of the press is not improving in Afghanistan / Safrang - What progress is Afghanistan making toward deomocracy? - The Afghan people want democracy / Christian Brose - Afghanistan is not ready for democracy / Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason - Hamid Karzai is a legitimate Afghan president / Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller - Hamid Karzai's regime is illegitimate / Peter W. Galbraith - Important gains can be made against government corruption in Afghanistan / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Important gains cannot be made against government corruption in Afghanistan / Ben W. Heineman Jr. - How should the drug trade be confronted in Afghanistan? - The Taliban rely on drug money / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Drug money does not go primarily to the Taliban / Julien Mercille - The United States must eradicate poppy crops in Afghanistan / Rachel Ehrenfeld - The United States should concentrate on interdiction of the drug trade in Afghanistan / Beth DeGrasse and Ylli Bajraktari - Neither eradicaton nor interdiction will stop the drug trade in Afghanistan / Eugene Robinson - Poppies should be legalized in Afghanistan / Reza Aslan.
What are security issues in Afghanistan? --
United States needs to reach a negotiated settlement with the Taliban / Stephen Biddle --
Talks with the Taliban: first failure, then humiliation / Isaac Chotiner --
United States should completely withdraw forces from Afghanistan / Ivan Eland --
United States should retain troops in Afghanistan / Lisa Curtis --
Iran is central to solving the Afghan conflict / Aaron Ellis --
Saudi-Iranian rivalry is central to the Afghan conflict / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh --
What issues confront Afghan democracy? --
Banyan: not a pleasant prospect / The Economist --
Afghanistan's culture does not support democracy / Thomas H. Johnson as told to Greg Bruno --
Growth of media shows progress in Afghan democracy / Associated Press --
US policy is responsible for high levels of corruption in Afghanistan / Anthony H. Cordesman --
U.S. to temper stance on Afghan corruption / Greg Jaffe --
Taliban preys on Afghanistan's corrupt police force / Brian Brady --
What are economic issues in Afghanistan? --
Afghan war is driven by desire for Afghanistan's mineral resource / Michel Chossudovsky --
Afghan war is not driven by desire for resources / Daily Bell --
Afghanistan needs to transition from opium to other crops / Alfred McCoy --
Poppies for pain relief / Charli Carpenter --
Afghanistan is making substantial economic progress / J. Alexander Thier as told to Jayshree Bajoria --
Afghanistan's economy continues to struggle as a result of war / Gopal Ratnam --
What is the human rights situation in Afghanistan? --
Western presence has improved the situation for women in Afghanistan / Tracy McVeigh --
Women's rights in Afghanistan depends on where one live / Stuart Whatley --
US presence has hurt women in Afghanistan / Bretigne Shaffer --
Drone strikes are an unethical violation of human rights / Conor Friedersdorf --
Drone strikes are an ethical response to terrorism / David Aaronovitch.