'Truth was rarely welcome': US officials held bleak view of war in Afghanistan, documents reveal
William Cummings
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Many top U.S. officials held sharply negative views of the U.S. entry into Afghanistan and bleak assessments of the prospects for success – views that were often at odds with public pronouncements – a trove of documents obtained by The Washington Post revealed.
The Post gained access to more than 2,000 pages of interviews on the war in Afghanistan through a Freedom of Information Act request. John Sopko – who heads the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which conducted the interviews – told the newspaper that the documents show "the American people have constantly been lied to" since U.S. troops first arrived there 18 years ago.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/09/afghanistan-documents-reveal-officials-doubted-war-worth-cost/2628417001/
