As a record of incompetence and cowardice, the Afghanistan Papers rank with the Pentagon Papers. onesarahjones writes
Bring ‘em home already. Photo: Ernesto Londoño/The Washington Post/Getty Images Long after most supporters of the invasion of Iraq conceded that the war was a bloody error, the war in Afghanistan benefited from more conciliatory coverage. It was the necessary war. Perhaps it was even a good war. A brutal enemy had attacked the U.S.
The war in Afghanistan is now old enough to vote, pay taxes, and enlist. Barack Obama pledged to end it, but didn’t; Donald Trump, despite some anti-interventionist rumbling on the campaign trail, has also kept American troops in the country. The war is a quagmire we cannot win, and according to a new report from the Washington Post, the American government has known this for a long time.
The Post says it obtained around 2,000 pages of interviews from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction , which it published on Monday after a three-year legal battle. The paper also acquired a collection of formerly classified memos written by Donald Rumsfeld, then the secretary of Defense, and one of the principal architects of the war.
Nobody, at least in public. As officials insisted in speeches and briefings that the U.S. was making “some progress” in its mission to break Al Qaeda and rebuild Afghanistan, they scrambled, in private, to fabricate proof. Sources in the military and in the Bush and Obama administrations said the U.S. government promoted statistics that were “distorted, spurious or downright false.” The parallels to Vietnam are obvious and disturbing, as the Post itself notes. To make it look as though U.S.
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