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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.

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.

What we learned in what is rightly being called the “Pentagon Papers” of our time, is that hundreds of US Administration officials – including three US Presidents – knowingly lied to the American people about the Afghanistan war for years. This wasn’t just a matter of omitting some unflattering facts. This was about bald-faced lying about a war they knew was a disaster from almost day one.

What is even more shocking than the release of this “smoking gun” evidence that the US government wasted two trillion dollars and killed more than three thousand Americans and more than 150,000 Afghans while lying through its teeth about the war is that you could hear a pin drop in the mainstream media about it. Aside from the initial publication in the Washington Post, which has itself been a major cheerleader for the war in Afghanistan, the mainstream media has shown literally no interest in what should be the story of the century.

It took three years and two federal lawsuits for The Washington Post to pry loose more than 2,000 pages of interview notes with generals, ambassadors, diplomats and other insiders who offered firsthand accounts of the mistakes that have prolonged the war in Afghanistan.

mrvmax wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:09 pm Watch the documentary “Legion of Brothers”, it’s about the 100 or so Green Berets that were sent to Afghanistan right after 911. Their mission was a success against the Taliban. Those 100 guys accomplished more than the tens of 1000’s that came after them and it only went downhill after them (starting with the US bombing and killing two Green Berets).

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:00 pm The book “Horse Soldiers” chronicles the Green Berets battles in the early days of Afghanistan, made into a movie “12 Strong.”

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:00 pm

mrvmax wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:09 pm Watch the documentary “Legion of Brothers”, it’s about the 100 or so Green Berets that were sent to Afghanistan right after 911. Their mission was a success against the Taliban. Those 100 guys accomplished more than the tens of 1000’s that came after them and it only went downhill after them (starting with the US bombing and killing two Green Berets).

The book “Horse Soldiers” chronicles the Green Berets battles in the early days of Afghanistan, made into a movie “12 Strong.”