Document dump casts a spotlight on US cluelessness in Afghanistan

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US officials raised concerns about whether the war in Afghanistan was ever winnable, according to a trove of documents

on US alleged misinformation surrounding the war in Afghanistan.

The information was compiled using interviews of senior military officials and diplomats working on the area. The war in Afghanistan has also killed tens of thousands of Afghans, many of them civilians, in air strikes and drone attacks by US forces and in terror attacks by Taliban fighters and Daesh terrorists.that in the first nine months of 2019 alone, around 8,200 civilians were killed in the war.

 

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