British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks with troops in southern Afghanistan.(The Prime Minister's Office)
The British View On Afghanistan: They Must Know Our Mission Is Doomed -- Matthew Parris, Times Online
Cameron and Clegg have made a calculation: sacrifice more soldiers in Afghanistan to keep on side with the US.
David Cameron has picked a fine time to make his Afghan debut. Convoy torched; helicopter shot down; the two security advisers to President Karzai whom the West most trusts resigned; and 29 Nato and British servicemen killed in nine days.
The photograph in Thursday’s Times of a burnt-out convoy of Nato supply trucks bound for Afghanistan took me back: not to Afghanistan, but to an earlier visit and another place.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Afghanistan: the march of folly -- Maharajakrishna Rasgotra, The Hindu
One Year Later, Has Ahmadinejad Weathered the Storm? -- Tony Karon, Time Magazine
Force, fear keep Iran together -- Doug Saunders, Globe And Mail
The Young Are Winning in Iran -- Jamsheed Choksy, Real Clear World
Why the Iran Sanctions Matter -- Matthew Levitt, Foreign Policy
The first rule of strategy: Israel's leaders get bogged down in details while Iran plays distraction game. -- Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
What Happened on the Mavi Marmara? -- New York Times editorial
NG-Uh-O: The trouble with humanitarianism. -- David Rieff, The new Republic
To Save Africa, Reject Its Nations -- Pierre Englebert, New York Times
Barack Obama has made me want to boycott America -- Alex Singleton, The Telegraph
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