Tag: Afghanistan: War is Unwinnable

NOVANEWS Scott Horton, author of Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, gives a riveting book talk. [Staff photo Phil Pasquini] The U.S. war in Afghanistan remains as unwinnable now as it was when the U.S.–led coalition dropped its first bomb in October 2001, author Scott Horton said at a March 4 talk at Washington, DC’s Middle East Books and More. In his insightful new book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, Horton details the futility of the longest U.S. war and makes the case for an immediate long-overdue withdrawal. The author began with an explanation of America’s long history of meddling in the region—from the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossa­degh to the ongoing war in Afghanistan known as Operation Freedom’s Sentinel....