Three cups of the Great Society, with guns

To say that the memoir “Three Cups of Tea” is the basis of the bitter pill that is American counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Afghanistan is a falsehood and gross exaggeration — like much of the book itself, as it turns out. But it is a fact that the 2006 mega-seller — considered “required” reading for the U.S. military in Afghanistan (not to mention a large chunk of the nation’s schoolchildren and college students) — has washed that strategy down, swirled it around and given its key tenets a weird charisma in the person of author Greg Mortenson.

What — since “60 Minutes” unmasked Mortenson and his book as a colossal fraud — now?