As usual, The Atlantic offers an eloquently written article without telling us like it is.

Take advantage of your Medium membership, or buy one if you did not do it yet, read articles that no mainstream media outlets would publish.

Right here on Medium, you can find out that 60 years ago, we were warned that things like Afghanistan today would happen, https://hak1010.medium.com/the-day-of-shame-again-431ee122416f.

The background is explained here:

https://hak1010.medium.com/more-brains-less-halliburton-38c23efcef61.