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Podcast: The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Episode: How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies
Description: Lasting 20 years, the war in Afghanistan was not only the longest conflict in American history—it was a near total failure.
Today's guest is Dan Krauss, whose documentary Bodyguard of Lies is an unflinching look at the Afghan war and the lessons the public desperately needs to learn from it. Krauss shows how officials such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted they weren't going to be honest with the American people. He reminds us that within six months of the 9/11 attacks, the United States had essentially destroyed Al Qaeda's capacity to attack us—but instead of leaving...