American officials during Vietnam felt they had nothing to learn from the failures of the French. Evidently officials overseeing Afghanistan felt no need to learn from the failures of our own last disastrous war. washingtonpost.com/history/2019/1
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The hubris of American “exceptionalism” blinded us as well to the fact that much could’ve been learned from the experience of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
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