Doctorie Distinguishes Between Line and Spin

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There's a lot of spin doctrine going on in the war. The pentagon's really good at spinning things, and always have been. But when i say that us. Officials were lying about the war or misleading the public on purpose, i don't say that lightly. There are specific events where they would say one thing in public, even though they knew the opposite was true. And yo, we document this chapter and verse for more than 300 pages. That's not just spinning. That's sayingyo.

Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains startling revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war, from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. The Afghanistan Papers is a shocking account that will supercharge a long overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.