Name: America’s Afghanistan Fiasco | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-15T00:52:04.000Z
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It's basically the Grey's Anatomy of wars.

And now, with the war in its eighteenth year,

about whether the American people were lied to

about the progress of the war in Afghanistan,

MAN: A massive new trove of confidential documents

U.S. officials systematically lied to the American public

virtually since the beginning, 18 years ago.

The objective: to conceal widespread fears

by our political and military leadership, uh,

the American government has been painting a rosy picture,

telling Americans everything has been going great in Afghanistan,

when, in reality, it's a total shit show.

every failing couple uses on Instagram, you know?

It's just like, "#datenight, #couplegoals. Send."

It's like, "Are you done with your phone now?"

I wouldn't have to take so many pictures, you dick. I hate you!"

"Let's do one more in portrait mode! Ah!"

from this bombshell Washington Post exposé

that the government manipulated every detail

when they knew the big picture was getting worse,

and they even tried to spin suicide bombings

as a sign of success, which is confidence, if nothing else.

You know, it's like making a Tinder profile that says,

"because I have my own room in my mommy's basement.

for governments to try and make things seem like

they're going well in a war when they aren't.

But what makes the story even more egregious was

WOMAN: We didn't know exactly why we were there

and they didn't even know who they were going to fight?

That's-that's a strategy of a group of drunk dudes

Just like, "Someone's getting (bleep) up tonight, bro."

how to define victory in Afghanistan, right?

Was it beating the Taliban, or beating al-Qaeda,

then you should just wrap it up and get out.

You know, like they did with Game of Thrones.

She's dead, he's gone, the bird kid is king.

that America's government had little success

But there was one thing they had plenty of-- money.

The problem is, as any rapper will tell you,

more money, more unnecessary expenditures.

Aid workers in the field, military officers, diplomats--

to spend, spend, spend as quickly as they could,

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