2019.12.09 12:16
(Washington Post: At War with the Truth)
With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, U.S. officials
acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted
enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation.
“We don’t invade poor countries to make them rich,” James Dobbins, a former senior U.S. diplomat
who served as a special envoy to Afghanistan under Bush and Obama, told government interviewers. “
We don’t invade authoritarian countries to make them democratic. We invade violent countries to make
them peaceful and we clearly failed in Afghanistan.”
With their forthright descriptions of how the United States became stuck in a faraway war, as well as
the government's determination to conceal them from the public, the cache of Lessons Learned
interviews broadly resembles the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's top-secret history of the Vietnam War.
- Washington post
Stay tuned. Washington Post will run the series on Afghanistan revealing government secret documents.
U.S. Government from Bush, Obama, to Trump lied about the war just like about Vietnam.
Craig Whitlock
Investigative reporter Education: Duke University, AB in history
Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter who specializein national security issues. He has covered the Pentagon, served as the Berlin bureau chief anreported from more than 60 countries. He joined The Washington Post in 1998.
2019.12.09 13:58
2019.12.10 01:03
https://time.com/5696950/bring-back-the-draft/
(2019. 10: Time: Why Bringing back the Draft could stop America's Forever Wars?)
The U.S. spent nearly one trillion dollars on the Afghanistan war.
It could be a lot more if you count on other types of aids.
What did we get for that? Nothing. It is our money, all Americans' tax dollars.
How about young men and women's lives were sacrificed in vain?
War is a kind of play that politicians, government and military resort on for their advantages.
People have to stop them from doing it.
But they have been muted because it was a thing of somebody else.
It has not been raining at my house.
2019.12.10 13:02
PBS news hour: Washington post reports war on Afghanistan)
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Vietnam was the people's war, but Afghanistan is their war.
People were drafted then, soldiers are volunteered now. Nowadays,
people do not care much about the war. People are saying lives
are precious, but my sons and daughters are not going to war.
'I think the public sensed bad news from Afghanistan for a long time,
but they did not get angry about the war and protest against the government
like during the Vietnam war because soldiers were volunteered to go to war.
It was the kind of job they needed.