'It seemed okay so long as you didn't look too closely at it and the U.S. was there to back it up,' Jonathan Schroden, director of the CNA think tank's Countering Threats and Challenges Program, told Newsweek.
But a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. government's congressionally mandated watchdog on Afghanistan and obtained bydetails two decades of failures that led up to the historic events still unfolding in the capital city of Kabul and across the country.
The report identified key areas in which the U.S. approach failed, including incoherent strategies, unrealistic timelines, unsustainable institutions, counterproductive personnel strategies, rampant insecurity and a fundamental lack of understanding of Afghanistan's social, economic and political context.
He highlighted three out of what he said were a"myriad" of reasons why the Afghan state never stood a chance from the outset of the U.S.-led intervention launched by former President George Bush 20 years ago, just weeks after 9/11.
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