We're Picking and Choosing Our War

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Women aren't treated very well in souti arabia either. They've been discriminatieg againster for decades. And i's pretty bad over there if you're a woman. But we certainly didn't contemplate military action in sauti arabia due to human rights violations or how women are treated there. That wasn't the original reason we went to war in afghanistan. It was just, once we got there and we were sort of in charge, because our military was er and the talban was topold, then it was ok, why? We need to do something about this.We need youl lets set up a democracy and help the afgh

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.