I can’t help but surmise that the original sin of America’s Afghan war, particularly after the initial 2001 invasion, was the reflexive assumption that within this landlocked Central Asian country, an imposed, Western-style representative democracy could take root. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

I Knew the War in Afghanistan Was a Lie

Nineteen years into America’s longest war, Afghanistan is in a worse state than at any time since the U.S. military invasion... Nightmares still haunt me. Sometimes it’s the standard stuff associated

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