It has been said that if we don't learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it. The catastrophe in Afghanistan shows that we did not learn from our mistakes in Vietnam.
The Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has released a report on Afghanistan. You can read the full report at this website.
In the report, the Inspector General lists seven lessons our government needs to learn from our time in Afghanistan. Those lessons are listed in the graphic above.
Will our government take these lessons to heart and learn from them? Probably not! We didn't learn from our time in Vietnam, and it is unlikely that we'll learn fro our time in Afghanistan.
Our politicians are not worried about repeating mistakes from the past. They only care about protecting their own political careers, and as soon as it's popular to engage in another unwindable war, they'll discard these lessons -- and we'll repeat the past again.
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