Fist of all, they were going to Brussels to party with EU elite. All of a sudden the media stopped mentioning it. A couple of hours at Kandahar Air Base for a photo op was the 'visiting the troops'.
This is all a lie concocted to save their humiliation from being complete and total.
Notice it is 'all about meeting NATO and visiting the troops'. This is a fabrication. It was a junket, plain and simple...