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Craig Whitlock
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“US military officials and advisers described explicit and sustained efforts to deliberately mislead the public. They said it was common in the field, as military headquarters in Kabul, at the Pentagon and at the White House to skew statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case.”
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
“U.S. officials wanted to pull out but feared the Afghan state would collapse if they did. Bin Laden had hoped for this exact scenario when he planned 9/11: to lure the U.S. superpower into an unwinnable guerrilla conflict that would deplete its national treasury and diminish its global influence.”
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
“Unlike his predecessors, Biden gave a sobering assessment of two decades of warfare. He did not try to frame the outcome as a victory. Instead, he said the United States had achieved it's objective long ago by destroying Al-Qaeda's stronghold in Afghanistan. He suggested that U.S. troops should have left after they killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. "That was ten years ago. Think about that," he said.”
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
― The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
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