Foreign Policy

In Afghanistan, failure is heaped on failure

By Washington Examiner
Published November 3, 2018 4:00am ET
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In Afghanistan, failure is heaped on failure
An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. James A. Slape at Dover Air Force Base, Del. | (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

We have failed in Afghanistan, and our government is beginning to admit it.

Numbers from the 41st quarterly report to Congress by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR, offer a clear and bleak assessment, reaffirming what the public and lawmakers have long known, which is that President George W. Bush’s ambitious project to build a nation-state in that remote tribal territory was flawed and unrealistic. It has failed spectacularly.

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