Imagine you fought in an unwinnable war that killed thousands of fellow soldiers. Imagine everyone knew it was unwinnable, but lied about it for 20 years. And imagine once that unwinnable war finally ended, the media barely mentioned the “Lessons Learned” theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
https://twitter.com/brettbruen/status/1432773074110369795
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan – we didn’t know what we were doing.”
“If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction … 2,400 lives lost.”
- Douglas Lute (lieutenant general)
theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
“If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction … 2,400 lives lost.”
- Douglas Lute (lieutenant general)
theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
“Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible”
“Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice-cream cone.”
- Bob Crowley (army colonel)
theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
“Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice-cream cone.”
- Bob Crowley (army colonel)
theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
Apparently, yes.
https://twitter.com/cahnemily/status/1432664445407436803
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