US officials in the Bush and Obama administrations believe the treatment of “Pakistan as a friend” in the country’s trillion-dollar 18-year-long Afghanistan war was a “critical error”, The Washington Post has revealed in its “secret history” of the conflict. On Monday, the American daily published US government papers in an extensive report, ‘The Afghanistan Papers’. […]
Treating Pakistan as a Friend Was a Critical Error: U.S. Officials in Afghanistan Papers…
The Afghanistan Papers Show the Swamp at Its Worst…
On Monday, the Washington Post published its story on the Afghanistan papers: 2,000 pages of interview notes of those involved in the war effort. It details the widespread deception and futility that characterized the war in Afghanistan. SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, compiled these interviews and adjacent data into seven reports. SIGAR […]
The Afghanistan Papers – “the American people have constantly been lied to.”
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. The documents were generated by a federal project […]
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown and Grown and Grown…
The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. It’s November 2017. The night vision camera shows a network of streets in a town in Helmand province, the poppy-growing centre of Afghanistan. The camera wheels around the targets before the missiles come arcing in. There are nine strikes […]
‘There’s no way I’m Meeting’ with the Taliban After U.S. Soldier’s Death…
President Trump told reporters the peace talks with the Taliban are “dead” in the aftermath of a U.S. soldier being killed in Afghanistan last week. Trump was set to host a Taliban delegation at Camp David for a continuation of peace talks just days before the anniversary of 9/11. He canceled them after Sgt. 1st […]
VP Pence Hits Back at Faux News Report by NBC on Canceled Taliban Meeting…
Afghanistan – Graveyard of Dreams…
President Trump Cancels Secret Meeting with Taliban Leadership at Camp David…
LOVE HIM OR LOATHE HIM: FORGIVING DISABLED VETS STUDENT LOANS IS A PURE ACT OF GRACE…
When the president walked out on stage, he was given a warm welcome at the 75th annual AMVETS Convention. AMVETS is an organization that helps veterans and their families. They fight for issues that are important to veterans. So, it was no surprise that the president talked about fighting to prevent veteran suicides, improving VA […]
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