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The Afghanistan Papers, revisited

Aug 20, 2021
Craig Whitlock, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and author of "The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War," dives deep into the concealed truths of the Afghan conflict. He discusses how revealing interviews with U.S. officials exposed the real failures of the war. The conversation touches on the complex withdrawals, the discrepancies between official narratives and ground realities, and the troubling accountability issues that arose during America's military presence. Whitlock also compares these findings to the Vietnam War's Pentagon Papers.
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