The Unwinnable War I: Wikileaks Reax

Amy Davidson:

What does it mean to tell the truth about a war? Is it a lie,technically speaking, for the Administration to say that it has faithin Hamid Karzai's government and regards him as a legitimate leader—oris it just absurd? Is it a lie to say that we have a plan forAfghanistan that makes any sense at all? If you put it that way, eachof the WikiLeaks documents—from an account of an armed showdown betweenthe Afghan police and the Afghan Army, to a few lines about a localinterdiction...