The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan reached its goal six months later, a military operation that, due to a series of strategic mistakes by Washington, took almost twenty years to complete.
This is reported by The Washington Post, which published declassified government documents.
It is about the testimony given by the military and officials who in one way or another took part in the armed conflict. According to the published information, the heads of the terrorist groups Al-Qaida and the Taliban were liquidated, taken prisoner or fleeing six months after the start of the invasion.
However, in their testimony, U.S. officials admitted that they had deviated from the elimination of terrorists for their own purposes. Thus failed military strategies “were based on erroneous assumptions about the country which they did not understand”. Thus, Washington’s fatal mistakes led to the fact that the war lasted for eighteen years, becoming a conflict “in which it is impossible to win”.
“If ever there was a notion of mission creep, it was Afghanistan”, – said former U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
“That’s why we’re there 15 years later. We’re trying to achieve what we can’t achieve instead of what we can achieve”, – he said in a transcript of a conversation with government officials in 2015.