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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/

(Washington Post: At War with the Truth)

 

U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress.
They were not, and they knew it,

 

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

Washington, D.C.

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.

 

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