NP - One sentence that shows how badly America failed in Afghanistan

[rich]

there's been a few longish pieces on scoring Britain's war in Afghanistan
in the UK press, a stunning renouncement of folly and stupidity

here's one

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/james-meek/worse-than-a-defeat

adam curtis' next film Bitter Lake will focus on Afghanistan

doubt we'll ever get a full reckoning for a while in the US

that obama can seriously claim we are ending our presence there responsibly
beggars belief.

rich



On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:19 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/7464111/afghanistan-war-failure
>
> The ceremony in Kabul honoring 13 years of mostly-American and British
> troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan *had to be held in a secret
> location*because the war has gone so badly that even the capital city is
> no longer safe from the Taliban.
>
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