Here’s the mind-blowing news in Anand Gopal’s new TomDispatch post, itself a powerful piece of reporting, and in his just-published book No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes: the U.S. fought its “war on terror” for almost a year in Afghanistan against -- quite literally -- ghosts. In the process, it resuscitated a Taliban movement that had ceased to exist and brought back the Harqqqani network as well, only to find itself in a conflict it couldn’t win. It’s a story that’s never been told before, even though Washington’s second Afghan War makes no sense without it. For many Americans, as Henry Ford so famously put it, history is bunk. In this case, however, history turns out to be everything that matters, and the rest has proved to be bloody, painful, and costly bunk. If you don’t believe me, read Gopal’s hidden history of the Afghan War at TD today and then get your hands on his book. Tom tomdispatch/blog/175837/
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:20:00 +0000
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