Afghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: 'We did not know what we were doing'

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A key theme of the trove of documents published this week was the lack of coherence in Washington’s approach to Afghanistan from the outset

In the midst of Barack Obama’s much vaunted military surge against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2010, Hayam Mohammed, an elder from Panjwai near the Pakistani border confronted an officer from the US 101st airborne who had come into his village.

 

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It looks like a bad remake of Vietnam (fortunately without Vietcong and North Vietnamese army). Its n't it?

It's not the college league ... millions of people lost their lives. What did we learn in school?

They know what they are doing... But they are not wise...

Learned nothing from history.

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