By Martin Woollacott From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the armed forces of the states located in the world's most intense conflict zone are stacked together like a dangerous house of cards.
By Andrew Gray Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and President George W Bush all agree on one thing - more US troops should go to Afghanistan. But would they make much difference?
t least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
WHEN THE next president enters the Oval Office in January, he will face the toughest foreign policy decisions of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. But the toughest of all will involve the struggle for Afghanistan.
'We have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in,' says Barack Obama of the U.S. war in Iraq. Wise counsel. But is Barack taking his own advice?