Confidential docs obtained by The Washington Post reveal top US officials misled the American public about the war in Afghanistan in order to conceal doubts about likelihood the US could be successful in the nearly 20-year effort since its earliest days
The Post said it obtained the more than 2,000 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act request made three years ago that sought to win access to the documents, which it said were part of a lengthy government report titled"Lessons Learned" that examined"the root failures" of the war effort through interviews with more than 600 people, including a number of foreigners connected to NATO and 20 Afghan officials.
Bush and Barack Obama, told interviewers"we were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan -- we didn't know what we were doing." Trump claims US could 'win' war in Afghanistan in a week during meeting with Pakistani PM"What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking," Lute said in 2015, according to the Post.
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