What the U.S. Didn’t Learn in Afghanistan

ProPublica: “A new report this week by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction also reveals the depths of failure of the United States’ entire 20-year, $145 billion effort to reconstruct (or construct, in some cases) Afghanistan’s civil society.”

“The efforts to create a new government and military from scratch were overly ambitious. They failed to consider the needs and abilities of Afghans. There was a disregard for learning from past mistakes.”  

“And the goals were far too ‘pie in the sky’ for one of the world’s poorest nations, a country still racked by violence.”