I just read a really interesting articleabout the history of American involvement in Afghanistan by Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe. After doing some serious investigative journalism, I found this lost Pentagon memo from the late 70’s. It reads:
“Don’t invade Afghanistan. Seriously don’t. Okay, if you absolutely have to, for the love God, please don’t prop up an Islamic extremist government. Seriously, don’t do that.”
I feel like maybe someone should have read that.