In most foreign policy issues the party has opposed military action. They were against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and were very much against the War in Iraq.[59] After joining the Red-Green Coalition in 2005, the party stopped their strong opposition to the two wars,[60] and in 2008 the party proposed creating a "new strategy" for the Norwegian armed forces located in Afghanistan.[61] In 2007, Erik Solheim from the Ministry of International Development visited Norwegian troops in Afghanistan.[62] The policy regarding Afghanistan has led to much unrest within the party, most notably with the party's chapter in Bergen.[63] By early 2008, the party chapters of Hordaland and Rogaland criticised Kristin Halvorsen and the government regarding their Afghanistan policies, and demanded an immediate withdrawal by October 2009. The Oslo chapter asked for drastic changes in the military strategy created by NATO.[64]