Modern Failure » Stephen Kinzer http://modernfailure.com A weblogmic from Doctor Awesome and Reverse Politician Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:47:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Lost Memo http://modernfailure.com/2009/03/20/lost-memo/ http://modernfailure.com/2009/03/20/lost-memo/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:10:55 +0000 Andy http://modernfailure.com/?p=158 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.

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