The blockbuster report known as the Afghanistan Papers has not received nearly as much coverage by most of the national news media as it deserved.
The Post story said, "US 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."
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said, "The American people have constantly been lied to."
His report is filled with quotes like that of Gen. Douglas Lute: "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - We didn't know what we were doing." He was the White House Afghan war czar during parts of both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Not nearly as well-known was my longtime opposition to dragging out the war in Afghanistan and my support for bringing home our troops years ago.
Mr. Sopko appeared seven times before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on which I served, and once met privately with me and Congressman Walter Jones in Jones' office to thank us for how we were speaking out on Afghanistan.
Later, the book's Afghan protagonist would tell an American diplomat that one day both America and Russia would invade Afghanistan and both would come to regret it.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/04/afghanistan-papers/
The Post story said, "US 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."
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said, "The American people have constantly been lied to."
His report is filled with quotes like that of Gen. Douglas Lute: "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - We didn't know what we were doing." He was the White House Afghan war czar during parts of both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Not nearly as well-known was my longtime opposition to dragging out the war in Afghanistan and my support for bringing home our troops years ago.
Mr. Sopko appeared seven times before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on which I served, and once met privately with me and Congressman Walter Jones in Jones' office to thank us for how we were speaking out on Afghanistan.
Later, the book's Afghan protagonist would tell an American diplomat that one day both America and Russia would invade Afghanistan and both would come to regret it.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/04/afghanistan-papers/
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