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truthout.org — President Barack Obama is entering a crucial decision-making phase on Afghanistan at a time when geopolitical mythology is dominating the debate, the Pentagon is requesting additional forces in Afghanistan. The military bureaucracy is particularly vulnerable to such mythology. As a result, the military has accepted five major myths with respect to Afghanistan.

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truthout.org — President Obama, before you decide whether to send 40,000 additional troops into harm's way, I respectfully request that you answer several common sense and simple questions. With Afghanistan in chaos and confidence in the central government at an all time low in the wake of a fraudulent election that was a strategic victory for the Taliban, just what do you expect the addition of 40,000 more troops to accomplish?

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airamerica.com — Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, it will mark eight years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. We thought we were going in for the right reason: to get the people who ordered the 9/11 attacks.

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truthdig.com — Every once in a while, a statistic just jumps out at you in a way that makes everything else you hear on a subject seem beside the point, if not downright absurd. That was my reaction to national security adviser, former Marine Gen. James Jones' statement, concerning the size of the terrorist threat from Afghanistan: "less than 100."

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washingtonpost.com — There is an alternative to a global counterinsurgency campaign. Instead of fighting an endless hot war in a vain effort to eliminate the jihadist threat, the United States should wage a cold war to keep the threat at bay. Such a strategy worked before. It can work again.

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tomdispatch.com — Will an already heavily militarized foreign policy geared to endless global war be surrendered to the generals? Depending on what Obama does, the answer to that question may not be fully, or even largely, clarified this time around. But consider us warned. This is a question that is not likely to go away and that may determine what this country becomes.

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truthdig.com — The Obama revolution, and there was the hope of one, might still succeed. But only if Barack Obama follows the model of the incredibly successful Reagan revolution and heeds the political base that made his presidency possible.

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nytimes.com — President Obama is in the uncomfortable position of staring reality in the face in Afghanistan. Reality is not blinking.

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motherjones.com — What jumps off the declassified pages of the Afghanistan war assessment by Gen. Stanley McChrystal is line after line indicating that the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan have truly botched the mission so far. In other words, thank you, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

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tomdispatch.com — It's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the U.S. is a war state that garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war.

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