Afghanistan Papers
Posted on AllSides December 10th, 2019
“A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post [revealed] 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.” Washington Post
Both sides are critical of the government’s deceptive statements:
“What is important in these hundreds of interviews – given by key US players to a US federal agency without the expectation their words would see the light of day – is...