A GPS Special: The Fall of Kabul, One Year Later
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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Afghanistan: The Importance of Group Thinking
For a long time, washington elite saw afghanistan as the good war. People were invested in believing that it was working. Many blinded themselves to evidence that it wasn't. The military is often very clear eyed about a conflict,. But once given a task, it will provide a stream of reports that prove it is succeeding. On august eleventh of last year, the pentagon told reporters that cabul might fall in 90 days. Four days later, the city fell.
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