Flutterby™! : At War With The Truth

Washington Post: The Afghanistan Papers — A secret history of the war: At war with the truth — U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.

“What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth $1 trillion?” Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy SEAL and White House staffer for Bush and Obama, told government interviewers. He added, “After the killing of Osama bin Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”

Who'd have thought that the institutions involved in the war on Vietnam might have had similar results in Afghanistan?