By Tyler Durden: A top official overseeing US aid in Afghanistan, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction John Sopko, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, and gave a blunt insider account of the many damning issues which have perpetuated America's longest war laid out in the recently declassified Afghanistan Papers.
He admitted that top officials had been caught lying about the true state of the war at every turn. "We have created an incentive to almost require people to lie," Sopko told the Congressional hearing.
"There's an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue," Sopko testified further. "Mendacity and hubris," he added. Explaining the fundamental why behind the mass deception, he described a situation where those executing the war were incentivized to paint a rosy picture of how things were going to the politicians and top brass in Washington (certainly nothing new in US foreign policy, especially going back to Vietnam).
He admitted that top officials had been caught lying about the true state of the war at every turn. "We have created an incentive to almost require people to lie," Sopko told the Congressional hearing.
"There's an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue," Sopko testified further. "Mendacity and hubris," he added. Explaining the fundamental why behind the mass deception, he described a situation where those executing the war were incentivized to paint a rosy picture of how things were going to the politicians and top brass in Washington (certainly nothing new in US foreign policy, especially going back to Vietnam).










