WaPo har tydligen publicerat vad de kallar the Pentagon Papers Afghanistan. I dem avslöjas att USA:s krigföring i landet varit ett enda stort misslyckande. Tyvärr ligger WaPo:s artikel bakom betalvägg men förhoppningsvis läcker den ut på andra ställen. Här har vi the Atlantic's kommentarer:
Everyone Knew We Were Losing in Afghanistan
And everyone in charge insisted we were winning.
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Everyone Knew We Were Losing in Afghanistan
And everyone in charge insisted we were winning.
/.../Based on a tranche of thousands of documents obtained by the Post in litigation, as well as some previously released memos, the report shows that for nearly two decades, America’s leaders—Democrat and Republican; civilian and military; elected, appointed, and career civil servant—have lied to us about how the war in Afghanistan is going. Yet while this story risks being overshadowed by the fresher stories coming out of Washington, there’s a straight line between the years-long dissembling about Afghanistan and the chaos of the Trump administration today.Man jämför denna publicering med the Pentagon Papers Vietnam som skakade om USA och vände opinionen för kriget där:
/.../The obvious analogy to the Post scoop is the Pentagon Papers, the batch of documents about the Vietnam War leaked to the press and published—over the fierce objections of the Nixon administration, and with the permission of the Supreme Court—in 1971. The documents were a watershed. As R. W. Apple Jr. wrote in The New York Times 25 years later, “They demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance.” They helped turn the tide of public opinion decisively against the war, and their lesson—that the government would lie so brazenly and extensively—set the table for Richard Nixon’s downfall and post-Watergate governmental reforms.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...ietnam/603316/
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