Flutterby™! : Vietnam being repeated in Afghanistan

This is my shocked face: Afghan war plagued by ‘mendacity’ and lies, inspector general tells Congress:

“There’s an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue . . . mendacity and hubris,” John F. Sopko said in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The problem is there is a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. We have created an incentive to almost require people to lie.”