A confidential trove of Government documents obtained by the Washington Post reveals that senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18 year campaign, making rosy announcements they knew to be false and hiding the unmistakable evidence that the war had been unwinable.

(Behaving like a US colony ,Australia joined the disastrous Afghanistan War like so many other US led wars of intervention that ended in defeat ,untold human suffering and brought terrorism to our shores. John Menadue)

See the Washington Postdocuments.