Worth remembering what was revealed in the Afghanistan Papers about how our leaders REALLY thought things were going in Afghanistan.
"We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” -General Douglas Lute, White House’s Afghan war czar under Bush and Obama
"We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” -General Douglas Lute, White House’s Afghan war czar under Bush and Obama
About Obama's surge: "It was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture. The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war.” Senior NSC official
"If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction...2400 lives lost. Who will say this was in vain?" General Lute
"Every data point was altered to present the best possible picture. “Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone." Colonel Bob Crowley Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor
“Our biggest single project, sadly and inadvertently, of course, may have been the development of mass corruption,” Ryan Crocker Ambassador to Afghanistan under Bush and Obama
They all knew that this war had long been a complete and utter disaster that strengthened the Taliban. President after President lied to the American people. Biden is the first one with the courage to actually do what they all knew needed to be done.
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