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Afghanistan
Did the US learn anything in Afghanistan? Former NATO assistant secretary general says billions was spent building wrong type of military and that D.C. was more interested in getting presidents re-elected than telling the truth, in scathing report
2022-08-18
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • John Manza wrote NATO's lessons learned report about Afghanistan last year

  • It remains classified but in a public essay he delivered a damning assessment

  • He said Washington's leaders deserve much of the blame for the chaos

  • They 'were more concerned about protecting the sitting president's chances of reelection than ... telling the truth about the lack of progress in Afghanistan'

  • He delivered his account a year after US troops hurriedly left Kabul

  • The country is now in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of conflict
Related: John Manza’s piece for the Atlantic Council: I wrote NATO’s lessons from Afghanistan. Now I wonder: What have we learned?
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  ...Reads the headline and answers the points as follows:

1. No.
2. No sh!t.
3. See #2.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-08-18 11:07  

#1  The USA scan not change these people or anyone else’s believes or actions. These people are tribal and very much like the demoncrats today. Everyone except the people who believe as I do are evil.
Posted by: Papa Cooky   2022-08-18 08:55  

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