If Trump called the war in Afghanistan a losing war, he was right. If he questioned the truthfulness and capability of the war’s managers, he was right. If he doubted whether he was getting accurate information, he was right: #afghanistanpapers amgreatness.com/2020/01/16/men…
“If things are going so well, are we still there? Why do we continue to spend so much money? As the saying goes, success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. Nowhere is this more true than in Afghanistan, where success is fleeting and failure is common.” John Sopko, SIGAR
The problem isn’t that Trump confronted the war’s architects and managers; the real problem is if Obama didn’t. More than 3/4 of the casualties in Afghanistan occurred on Obama/Biden watch. They escalated the war—and we know it was a failure. Why? Who’s accountable? Not Trump.
Sopko:”The problem is there’s a disincentive to tell the truth. We have created an incentive to require people to lie. You create an incentive to show success. That gets reported up the chain. Before you know it, the president is talking about a success that doesn’t exist.”
