The Washington Post exclusively disclosed on the 9th that the U.S. government has misled the public for a long time on the issue of the war in Afghanistan, concealed the truth of the war, and depicted a far better prospect than reality by tampering with data.
It is reported that during the past 18 years of war, from the US president to senior government officials, they have repeatedly insisted that the US military action in Afghanistan has made progress.
Washington Post reporter Craig & middot; Wittlock: the president, members of Congress and military commanders have spoken in public for 18 years, and their words are very similar. We have made progress. Our direction is right, our strategy is very reliable, and they will say some detailed cases to explain why Americans should always have confidence to fight this war. But when you look back at these interviews, people will say that they say some brainwashing words, even lies.
As wittlock said, in the more than 2000 pages of notes obtained by the Washington Post, more than 400 direct participants in the Afghan war were interviewed. These respondents said that the relevant data on the Afghan war had been tampered with and the facts distorted in order to provide the American public with a picture far from the real situation.
Retired three-star Army General Douglas & middot; In an interview in 2015, lute said that he had no idea what the U.S. military was doing in Afghanistan. The officers also complained that they did not know what the war meant - were they there to fight terrorism? Or let Afghanistan become a so-called democracy?
In fact, Afghanistan has been in turmoil since the United States launched the war in Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban regime in 2001. After 2005, the Taliban made a comeback and the security situation deteriorated day by day. According to the United Nations report, nearly 4000 Afghan civilians died in various conflicts in 2018, the highest number of civilian deaths ever recorded.
Some Afghan political analysts said that the United States used the war on terrorism as an excuse to garrison troops, but the United States actually only cares about its own interests in the region and does not care about the life and death of Afghans at all.