THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS
THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS PART 1 . AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH US officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it. By Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post - Craig Whitlock specializes in national security issues. Reported from more than 60 countries. A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior US officials [lied] about the war in Afghanistan, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false , and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. The documents include notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the war, from generals and diplomats , to aid workers and Afghan officials . Douglas Lute , a three-star Army general - served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations: “ We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing, What are we trying to do here? We didn’t h