Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser under Bush, was even more explicit in his admission of US imperialism’s debacle in Afghanistan-and elsewhere. Bush and Barack Obama, told his government interviewers in 2015, “If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction… 2,400 lives lost. Those who participated had no expectation that their words would be made public.ĭouglas Lute, a retired Army lieutenant general who served as the Afghanistan “war czar” under the administrations of both George W. What emerges from the interviews, conducted with more than 400 US military officers, special forces operatives, officials from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and senior advisers to both US commanders in Afghanistan and the White House, is an overriding sense of failure tinged with bitterness and cynicism. SIGAR’s director, John Sopko, freely admitted to the Post that the interviews provided irrefutable evidence that “the American people have constantly been lied to” about the war in Afghanistan. The project was designed to review the failures of the Afghanistan intervention with the aim of preventing their repetition the next time US imperialism seeks to carry out an illegal invasion and occupation of an oppressed country. The interviews were conducted between 20 in a “Lessons Learned” project initiated by the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). While initially they were not secret, the Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.
The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. The publication Monday by the Washington Post of interviews with senior US officials and military commanders on the nearly two-decades-old US war in Afghanistan has provided a damning indictment of both the criminality and abject failure of an imperialist intervention conducted on the basis of lies. Above Photo: Afghan villagers pray over the grave of one of the 16 victims killed in a shooting rampage by a US soldier in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 24, 2012.
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