Pakistan-Afghanistan, Washington’s Managed Chaos Backfired (2012-Vital)

Pakistan-Afghanistan, Washington’s Managed Chaos Backfired (2012-Vital)

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. ­El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. ­ …Francisco José de Goya ­Afghanistan is in dire straits due to the United Kingdom’s ‘divide & rule’ colonial legacy and an unholy alliance with the United States circa Charlie Wilson’s endless War, which mutated from carefully inflamed anti-Soviet insurgency into…

‘Mendacity & Lies’: After 19 Years America Admits to Itself That It NEVER could have Won War in Afghanistan

‘Mendacity & Lies’: After 19 Years America Admits to Itself That It NEVER could have Won War in Afghanistan

John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction, testified before Congress this week that America’s Afghan War was plagued by “mendacity and lies.” But all honesty in the world couldn’t have won it for the US. Lessons learned? The recent publication by the Washington Post of more than 2,000 pages of “Lessons Learned” interviews,…

The Afghanistan Papers Are a Case Study in Colonial Propaganda

The Afghanistan Papers Are a Case Study in Colonial Propaganda

In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers (12/9/19), I discussed how the Post’s exposé also exposed the Post as one of the primary vehicles US officials use to spread their lies, and why it’s impossible for corporate media outlets like the Post to raise more substantive questions about the deceptive nature of US foreign policy. But those…