Afghanistan Commentary Updates

US on track in 'difficult' Afghan war: Obama -- Yahoo News/AFP
U.S. Revises Rules for Raids Touted in Review -- Wall Street Journal
Obama vows to be more relentless than Taliban, al Qaeda -- Washington Times
Obama says Afghan withdrawal is on track -- USA Today
Afghanistan war review: Barack Obama announces 'significant progress' -- The Telegraph
Obama: US on track in Afghanistan, issues remain -- Stars And Stripes/AP
Afghanistan Success Depends on Afghans, Pakistan -- CBS News
Afghan war: Obama says mission difficult but on track -- BBC
Uncertainty marks White House review on Afghanistan, Pakistan -- L.A. Times
Obama says U.S. is 'on track' to achieve goals in Afghanistan -- Washington Post
Obama trumpets U.S. gains in Afghanistan -- CNN
War Report Touts Progress In South Afghanistan -- NPR (Audio)
Obama: Progress in Afghanistan, But Gains Fragile -- Voice of America
Obama: Significant Progress In Fighting al-Qaida, Taliban -- Voice of America
'On track' in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama says -- Politico
Afghan Report Exposes a Split Over Pullout Timelines -- New York Times
Obama Says Afghan Goals Are 'On Track' -- Wall Street Journal
Taliban say U.S. Afghan war review is propaganda -- Yahoo News/Reuters

Taliban ambush British soldiers in Afghanistan -- The Telegraph
US set to target Pakistan havens for more attacks -- Boston.com
'Ratlines' threaten White House Afghan war plans -- Yahoo News/AP
Mullen: Taliban hideouts can be shut down -- Yahoo News/AP
Mullen worries fighters may return to Kandahar -- Seattle PI/AP
Germany: pullout from Afghanistan to start in 2011 -- Washington Post
Yearly Price Tab for Afghan Forces: $6 Billion, Indefinitely -- The Danger Room
Army Set to Award Mega-Contract to Train Afghan Cops -- The Danger Room
U.S. Sharpens Criticism of Afghan Corruption -- Wall Street Journal
US support for Afghan war dives -- The Age
Record-low support for Afghanistan war shows Obama's vulnerability -- Christian Science Monitor

Commentaries, Opinions, Analysis, And Editorials

We Are Winning in Afghanistan, Though Work Remains to Be Done -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine
Critics say Afghanistan review falls short -- Politico
Afghanistan Report Take-Home: Should the U.S. Stay the Course? -- ABC News
Analysis: Four more years of war in Afghanistan -- CNN
Progress in Afghanistan, with caveats -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
Decoding Obama's comments on war in Afghanistan: What did he really mean? -- Christian Science Monitor
Why we must stick with Obama's Afghan strategy -- By Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, Washington Post
A war's cycle to nowhere -- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Afghanistan Review -- New York Times editorial
Mission impossible in Afghanistan -- L.A. Times editorial
Reality in Afghanistan -- Washington Times editorial
All's not well in Afghanistan -- Jim Hanson, Washington Times
On Borrowed Time -- New York times editorial
Analysis: White House struggles for silver lining in Afghanistan -- Mitch Potter, Toronto Star
Afghanistan: progress or a gargantuan waste of money? -- L.A. Times
5 Things The Afghan War Review Didn't Say -- Alan Greenblatt, NPR
Will the Afghanistan war break Obama's presidency? -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Related articles

• "Obama's War Review Says Taliban, Al-Qaida Have Been Diminished" and related posts (huffingtonpost.com)
• Afghan war review 'brutally honest': Mullen (alternet.org)
• Obama: Afghan Withdrawal on Track for 2011 (abcnews.go.com)
• Obama says US on track in 'difficult' Afghan war (alternet.org)
• Obama's Overview of Afghanistan War Fails to Specify Goals (thedailybeast.com)
• Afghan war review: Al-Qaida and Taliban weakened (msnbc.msn.com)
• Afghanistan war review: Nato air strike kills four Afghan soldiers (telegraph.co.uk)
• Afghan War Review: Slow Progress at a 'Very High Price' (politicsdaily.com)
• Despite Bloodshed, Obama Touts Afghan War Progress (socyberty.com)