Americans have long ignored the country’s longest war, launched when some of its current participants weren’t even alive. Afghanistan rarely makes headlines these days, and when it does, it’s often because one president or another is debating whether to pull troops out — and how many. The war’s not popular, and yet it goes on in large measure because it’s out of sight — and therefore out of mind — for most voters.
Will that change now? … THE WASHINGTON POST has dropped a major package by Criag Whitlock called “The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history of the war” … “At War With The Truth: U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”
The Story: “A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
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