For the first time since we invaded Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, a majority of Republicans say that the war was not worth fighting. Even the superpatriots, the military do-or-die-ers, the America Firsters, the my-country-right-or-wrong crowd, have come to the conclusion that this war should never have happened. They're right.

Gen. Petraeus' team has responded to the story of destroyed Afghan town Tarok Kolache.

Top-level Taliban commanders are being transported from Pakistan to Afghanistan for face-to-face talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government that could end to the War in Afghanistan. So, I guess, start preparing an unsatisfying, vaguely-defined celebration.