As the world looks on with horror at the events unfolding in Afghanistan, you might think that this would be a moment to reassess the failures of leadership that led to 20 years of senseless war.
But turn on cable news and you’ll instead hear a parade of ex-military and Bush administration officials — many with undisclosed ties to defense contractors — castigating President Joe Biden for a crisis of their own making.
As an Intercept reader, you know better. At every stage, we’ve exposed the bloodshed and incompetence of this war: the killing of civilians by drones and death squads, the dubious alliances with local warlords, and the mercenary profiteering by private “security contractors” like Erik Prince.
Now, with the permahawks back on center stage, The Intercept’s dissenting voice has never been more needed — to set the record straight about the war in Afghanistan and prevent the next deadly imperial misadventure.
Right now, our independent, nonprofit newsroom is racing to report not just on the immediate humanitarian crisis, but also on how it was precipitated by corporate profit motives and political corruption — which create crises like it everywhere the U.S. military-industrial complex rears its ugly head.
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