Brigadier General Larry Nicholson addressed Marines before they conducted a helicopter assault into Marja, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesThe Hill: Pentagon brushes aside bombshell 'Afghanistan Papers'
Top Defense Department officials have largely brushed aside questions surrounding reports that U.S. officials lied about progress in the 18-year Afghanistan war, with experts saying it's unlikely the documents will change the administration's approach to the long-running conflict.
The bombshell reports, which were released the same week the House Judiciary Committee readied and then advanced two articles of impeachment against President Trump, have largely been sidestepped by defense officials when speaking to lawmakers and the media.
“I haven’t read all the stories frankly… but the stories spanned multiple administrations, multiple uniformed and civilian officials and I think it’s good to look back. I think at this point where I’m looking is forward,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
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Previous Post: Washington Post: Politicians And Generals Have Lied To The American People For Years About The War In Afghanistan (December 9, 2019).
Update: Lying by Bush and Obama over Afghanistan is this era’s Pentagon Papers (Maureen Callahan, NYPost)
WNU Editor: When it comes to Afghanistan there are many outrages. this is another one .... The real outrage of the Afghanistan war papers that no one wants to talk about (RAW Story).
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The problem is the Washington Post is itself a liar!
The commentary by Sophia A. McClennen of Salon ignores many things. I hope McClennen is not a historian, because she purposefully omits many things.
- She omits the Pottery Barn Rule.
- She trots out "American exceptionalism" as if we all agree what it all is. She sets it up as a strawman to be taken down at her leisure.
"But it’s been misdefined. It is not that we are better people. But that’s how it’s being portrayed, and that’s how the left is attacking it. The left’s got many core beliefs, but one of them is, we’re all the same. Nobody’s better than anybody else. We’re all equal."
You can read the rest for complete context.
Just one example is that America has Free speech. Britain does not. If they did, why do they have"Speakers Corner" ?
- McClellen asserts that we met all our objectives in Afghanistan in 6 months. Elections were held within 6 months? Osama was captured? Does she think that the enemy does not get a vote? If the enemy is not on the battlefield, but retreated into a 3nrd country to relax, reload, recruit and recuperate does Ms. McClellen assume that means that we won?
We might as well call Ms McClellen "little Mac.'
PS: Why use bodycounts as a metric, when almost everyone involved will misuse it? If we had used body counts like they have been used since the 1960s, the Axis would have won and Goebbels would be congratulating the MSM before having them marched off to Treblinka.
Don't get all worked up, this is mere piling on after many years of a war people don't understand. I can't help remember the image of a mouse with its head in a mouse trap and his buddies f'ing him from behind. I have posted here many times; this is an intractable war and we should have a strategy that is long term and permanent, not seek ways to leave.
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