Controversial Afghan Papers Reveal Trillion-Dollar Cost Of War Despite No Clear Objective

An Afghan policeman stands guard at a checkpoint in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sept. 26, 2019. Parwiz/Reuters

The bombshell Afghanistan Papers, published earlier this month by The Washington Post, revealed that the public had been misled into believing that, “the United States was winning the war when that was not the case,” the paper said.

The paper obtained more than 2,000 pages of confidential documents through a Freedom Of Information Act request made three years ago.