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Afghanistan An Utter Failure –Wikileaks Documents Reveal Disturbing Truths About the War in Afghanistan
Gareth Porter - http://www.ipsnews.net/
Last week 75,000 classified documents were released by the web site Wikileaks, providing the public with detailed unknown information about the war in Afghanistan. Among many revelations, the documents reveal the Afghanistan war as an utter failure; inconsistent with American Values, and contradictory to official claims as to what the American Military Strategy is.
Gareth Porter discusses some of the important facts revealed by the leaks, and how this information may impact the public perception of the war as a whole and the official govt. narrative about it.
About Gareth Porter:
Dr. Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on U.S. national security policy who writes regularly for Inter Press Service on U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran since 2005.
He has been independent since a brief period of university teaching in the 1980s. Dr. Porter is the author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005). He has written regularly for Inter Press Service on U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran since 2005.
Dr. Porter was both a Vietnam specialist and an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and was Co-Director of Indochina Resource Center in Washington. Dr. Porter taught international studies at City College of New York and American University. He was the first Academic Director for Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Washington Semester program at American University.