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The tragic thing here is that there's nothing new, really, other than the revelation that the people on the inside knew it was every bit as hopeless as the people on the outside suspected, and that they'd been deliberately lying about it for eighteen years.
The video is worth watching, all 17 minutes of it.
- “Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible,” Bob Crowley, an Army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2013 and 2014, told government interviewers. “Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.”