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Tell me lies about Afghanistan
Misleading narratives about the Afghan invasion and its motives are still promoted by the BBC and others. The families of those who died in this futile adventure deserve a proper national reckoning, says IAN SINCLAIR
A ruined street in Kabul, 2002
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THE omissions and distortions that have been made by politicians about Afghanistan over the last few weeks, echoed by much of the media, have been so big and unremitting it’s easy to start questioning one’s own grip on reality.
Why are the media giving so much airtime to the politicians and senior military figures responsible for the carnage in Afghanistan?
Why is no-one pointing out it was the violent Western occupation of the country that fuelled the rise of the Taliban-led resistance?
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