2,300 US service personnel dead, 20,000 maimed- FOR NOTHING ! They lied.

[moon]

Afghanistan papers reveal US public were misled about unwinnable war


Interviews with key insiders reveal damning verdict on conflict that cost 2,300 US lives



Hundreds of confidential interviews with key figures involved in prosecuting the 18-year US war in Afghanistan have revealed that the US public has been consistently misled about an unwinnable conflict.

Transcripts of the interviews, published by the Washington Post after a three-year legal battle, were collected for a Lessons Learned project by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), a federal agency whose main task is eliminating corruption and inefficiency in the US war effort.

The 2,000 pages of documents reveal the bleak and unvarnished views of many insiders in a war that has cost $1tn (£760bn) and killed more than 2,300 US servicemen and women, with more than 20,000 injured. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died in the conflict.


The documents have echoes of the Pentagon Papers – the US military’s secret history of the Vietnam war that were leaked in 1971 and told a similarly troubling story of the cover-up of military failure.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...unwinnable-war

A trillion dollars spent. Tens of thousands of Afghan citizens dead. US reputation trashed .....again- and no face-saving route to bringing 13,000 troops home.

It's what happens when you vote for the arms industry.

[moon]

U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it, an exclusive Post investigation found.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ial-documents/

THE AFGHAN PAPERS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ge%2Fstory-ans

[Minister of Truth]

A trillion dollars spent. Tens of thousands of Afghan citizens dead. US reputation trashed .....again- and no face-saving route to bringing 13,000 troops home.

It's what happens when you vote for the arms industry.

We all wish Israel hadn't bombed the WTC.

[moon]

We all wish Israel hadn't bombed the WTC.

Your wish is granted.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

About 15,000 Soviet troops were killed in Afghanistan, 1979-1989.
They made no progress either.

[NiftyNiblick]

Afghanistan could be nuked into oblivion and nothing would be accomplished. The place is a fucking rockpile, either way.
I feel sorry for the people who have to live there, though. Even Alabama or Mississippi would be an improvement for them.

[Eagle_Eye]

I fully supported going into Afghanistan to get OBL and kill al-Qaeda and destroy the terrorist training camps. Sadly it took a few years to find him and take him out. So now we have to pull out our job there is done.

[Mason Michaels]

I fully supported going into Afghanistan to get OBL and kill al-Qaeda and destroy the terrorist training camps. Sadly it took a few years to find him and take him out. So now we have to pull out our job there is done.

Did Bush really try to get OBL?

[Eagle_Eye]

Did Bush really try to get OBL?

YES

[Mason Michaels]

YES