• Stopping Military Build-up in Afghanistan Key to Real "Change" and "Hope" by Roberto Lovato
• Should Americans Really Consider Afghanistan the "Right" War? by Liliana Segura
• Afghanistan - What's Going On by Baratunde Thurston

Rachel Maddow and our featured bloggers will be using the links below to prepare for the show, and now you can too. Should the U.S. redeploy troops to Afghanistan, or can a non-military resolution be found? And how can the U.S. send troops without sending much-needed aid? These are just some of the questions explored below that we will be discussing:

• Rethinking Afghanistan by Katrina Vanden Heuvel at The Nation
• Poorly Directed Aid Increase Afghanistan's Woes editorial at The Guardian
• Remember Afghanistan? by Tim McGirk at Time
• Study questions US strategy against al-Qaida by Barry Schweid, Associated Press
• Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren't Telling You About by Joshua Holland at AlterNet
• Memo to Obama, McCain: No One Wins a War by Howard Zinn, Boston Globe
• Pakistan's America Problem by Zia Mian at Foreign Policy in Focus
• The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan by Tom Engelhardt at Tomdispatch.com
• Should Obama Escalate the War in Afghanistsan? by Chuck Spinney at CounterPunch.org
• Drilling in Afghanistan by Thomas Friedman at the NY Times

If you missed last weeks show with Senator Harry Reid, you can watch it here.