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Over 92,000 pages of classified US documents relating to the Afghanistan war were anonymously leaked onto the internet this weekend, via the infamous leaker website Wikileaks.org.
The leaked papers highlight all sorts of nasty facts about the war, including the military’s routine cover-ups of civilian deaths, the massive corruption of the Afghan government, ongoing Pakistani aid to the Taliban, and the overall general failure of the allied forces to make much progress in an almost nine-year counter-insurgency battle.
A lot of analogies to the famous 1971 “Pentagon Papers” have been made in the immediate aftermath of the Wikileaks story. Those similarly depressing leaked documents, we remember, were credited with helping turn the tide of public opinion solidly against the war in Vietnam, and America’s eventual pullout from Southeast Asia. The grim facts and analyses contained within marked the death of any lingering strain of pro-war optimism.
We live in much more cynical times today, however. Whether or not anyone will be that troubled by new facts about just how poorly the Afghan war is going remains to be seen, considering how much growing anti-war frustration and malaise we’ve already been experiencing for several years. Even the war’s few remaining vocal supporters, including President Obama, seem fairly resigned to a fairly low standard of what “victory” should entail.
Can public opinion really get much more disillusioned than it already is, in other words.
What do you think?
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