We've Learned Our Lesson

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There's certainly no public appetite right now to get stuck in a long, unwinnable war in asia, around the other side of the world. And these future leaders are going to come under a lot of the same pressures that bush and obama and trump and biden did. So, yo, sooner or later, there's going to be some kind of attack or military crisis overseas, and our government,. whoever is in charges, can have to respond to that. O, that could be this year, next year, ten years down the line, but that's the point when wereg have to sort of hope our leaders can step back and really soberly assess what's going

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.