{"id":11950,"date":"2019-12-10T02:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/afghanistan-papers-military-washington-post-analysis"},"modified":"2019-12-10T02:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:10:53","slug":"us-lies-and-deception-spelled-out-in-afghanistan-papers-shocking-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11950","title":{"rendered":"US lies and deception spelled out in Afghanistan papers&#8217; shocking detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tranche of documents show that in trying to paint the best pictures, those involved delivered the worst<\/p>\n<p>During the Vietnam war, the daily US military briefings were known to journalists as the Five O\u2019 Clock Follies, described by one of the AP reporters who attended them as \u201cthe longest-playing tragicomedy in south-east Asia\u2019s theatre of the absurd\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon Papers, the Department of Defense\u2019s secret history of that war, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, only underlined the level of that deception under subsequent US presidents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/afghanistan-papers-military-washington-post-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tranche of documents show that in trying to paint the best pictures, those involved delivered the worstDuring the Vietnam war, the daily US military briefings were known to journalists as the Five O\u2019 Clock Follies, described by one of the AP report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}