A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
Meanwhile, this debacle continues to drain $4,000,000,000 (4 Billion) a MONTH for our limited resources that are having cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, the social network, a continuing decay in our infrastructure, and more.