Stunning. The new Pentagon papers describe ‘ explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public...to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case.’ washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/
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Direct War Deaths in Afghanistan (Oct 2001-Oct 2019)
2,298 US Military
6 DOD Civ
3,814 US Contractors
64,124 National Mil Police
1,145 Allied
43,074 Civilians
42,100 Opposition Fighters
67 Journalists
424 Humanitarian/NGO Workers
157,052 Total
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It is almost as if history was sick of rhyming and just decided to repeat itself.
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I remember taking some 3rd graders to see the Viet Nam memorial several years ago, and I overheard one of the girls say to another, "Why is it that the United States always seems to win the wars?"
I thought, um....
And that wasn't even counting the diction....
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Maybe wars aren't winnable. Maybe it is all in who tells the story, and how it gets told.
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But, this is old news, right? I mean, we knew this in the 70's.
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Afghanistan has a way for eating away at armies and foreign governments that want to "fix it". It's everyone's kryptonite.
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Wow!
This is huge, the "Afghanistan Papers" is the "new Pentagon Papers".
The only downside is that the most incompetent POTUS in history may get the credit (unless he is too obtuse to realize how important they are).
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Which sounds cool in a twitter post, but how many of you knew about this prior to today and didn’t say anything?
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Pentagon Papers -these were stolen&published -we wanted to delay publication until assets were safe but media refused.Copies turned up at the Soviet embassy.We will never know for sure how many were tortured or killed due to publishing. Praying for assets today -
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