Tag: Trump’s failing Afghanistan War

NOVANEWS By: Jim W. Dean Afghanistan - Where the dreams of empires get buried Editor’s Note: Governments now routinely hide anything they can about the failure of our foreign policy, by deeming not doing so to be a potential threat to national security. This of course is quite a stretch, and a convenient one on their part. Martin Jay has a very concise article below about how both the Afghan government and the US want to hide the real casualties being incurred in the war, feeling that it might cast a shadow on the rosy projections. For the Afghans it hurts recruitment as the draw to pull people into the military their is the paycheck. Martin Jay – Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley   the US, although much is made about servi...