Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, discusses his article "How the U.S. Created the Afghan War - and Then Lost It;" the squandered chance to ally with Jalaluddin Haqqani in 2001 and avoid spreading the war into Pakistan; and why the Afghan government would fall immediately without continued US support.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist and historian, continues yesterday's discussion of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria and parses the conflicting opinions of bloggers and experts on who was responsible for the attack and what really happened.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist and historian, discusses the new evidence that casts doubt on the official story of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria.

John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses the Obama administration's troubled Asia-Pacific Pivot plan; the new military agreement on US bases and troops in the Philippines; and why the US is backing Japan in a controversial island dispute with China.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his (sort of) defense of John Kerry's statement on securing a two-state solution to prevent an apartheid Israel; the oft-repeated historical myth of "a land without a people for a people without a land;" and the facts on the ground that show Israel is already an apartheid state.

David Rohde, an investigative reporter for Reuters and a contributing editor for The Atlantic, discusses his article "How America Lost Vladimir Putin;" rifts in the US-Russia relationship since Putin's offer of assistance after 9/11; Putin's fear that his government was targeted for the next pro-democracy NGO-backed color-coded revolution; and why it's hard to differentiate between the "will of the people" and foreign agitators in Ukraine's civil strife.

Karen Greenberg, editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, discusses the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and why the Bush administration got away with it; and how the Senate Intelligence Committee report threatens to undermine all the legal and practical justifications for Bush-era torture programs.