The government reportedly launched a media campaign to cover up their failures in the region, image via The New York Times
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The US government may have lied about the their success in Afghanistan

According to a report by the Washington Post, the US government had severely overstated their success in Afghanistan over the last ten years. The report is based on over 400 interviews of those involved with the operation, many of whom admitted that the American public was lied to about the war.

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