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Afghanistan: do we really need to listen to the Humvee salesmen?
The US-British occupation was a miserable failure — but instead of looking for dodgy pundits to say it wasn’t, the press should be asking why it failed, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
General Jack Keane is currently the chairman of AM General, the Indiana-based company that makes the Humvee; in 2017 AM General got a $417 million contract to supply more Humvees for Afghanistan
by Roger D Harris and John Perry
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THE media seem so shocked by the predictable failure of the Afghanistan occupation that they are doing their best to avoid reporting how it happened.
The Afghan government and army completely collapsed in the face of the Taliban, but the British press don’t want to examine how this house of cards was built — and instead blame everything on the final breath of wind that knocked it down.
I was struck by the self-delusion of “serious” media when listening to Radio 4 this week.
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