The Afghanistan I Fought in for the U.S. Was Always a Lie
20 YEARS GONE IN A WEEK
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The swift transition to Taliban rule has veterans like me wondering how we could’ve gotten the country so wrong. But the real Afghanistan was always right in front of us.
Things were bad when we arrived in Kuduz during my second deployment to Afghanistan, in 2010. The Taliban controlled everything up to the roads. Our partners
