The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan – by Glenn Greenwald – Glenn Greenwald
The Taliban regime is coming to an end, announced President George W. Bush at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on December 12, 2001 almost twenty years ago today. Five months later, Bush vowed: In the United States of America, the terrorists have chosen a foe unlike they have faced before. . . . We will stay until the mission is done. Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced: Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost a coveted base in Afghanistan and they know they will never reclaim it when democracy succeeds. . . . The days of the Taliban are over. The future of Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan.
For two decades, the message Americans heard from their political and military leaders about the country s longest war was the same. America is winning. The Taliban is on the verge of permanent obliteration. The U.S. is fortifying the Afghan security forces, which are close to being able to stand on their own and defend the government and the country.
The reason I’m not posting more about this story is that it is such old news.
Of course our military mission in Afghanistan was utterly hopeless and corrupt. No one should be even a little bit surprised. If you were (be honest now) consider this your red pill. Obama should have gotten us out of there. Ditto Trump. Bush should have too of course, but he was beyond hopeless. Congress should have intervened (!).
Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.