Bloggers have a lot to say regarding President Bush's "surprise" visit to Kabul.

At a time when US forces are engaged in combat on three continents, one would think that national security would be front and center in any debate between those vying to become the next commander in chief. But national security received scant attention at Monday's Republican primary debate in New Hampshire.

The front-line fighters in the battle for hearts and minds in Afghanistan are in the American and coalition Provincial Reconstruction Teams.

Sympathy runs dry for Condoleezza Rice"s fiasco-laden State Department, butit hasthe opportunity to reverse its slide into interagency irrelevancy.

Renewed fighting in Afghanistan could call for a new strategy.

There are two important problems with the current American strategy in Afghanistan--too much faith in NATO and too little investment in indigenous Afghan institutions.

For many superstitious Afghans, it's no coincidence that the coming of democracy coincides with the end of the drought; it's proof, despite winter's bitter hardships, of a better future.

A roundup of the past month's good news from Afghanistan.