By any reasonable standard, the US-led NATO-powered invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now entering its 13th year, has been an unmitigated failure. Of course, NATO does not measure the outcome of its mission by reasonable standards. They have their own entirely different yardstick by which they gauge their operations, and by that standard, the Afghan war has been an unqualified success.
Find out about NATO's interest in Afghanistan and why they are working with the Taliban to make sure that occupation continues beyond 2014 in this week's Eyeopener report from BoilingFrogsPost.com.
The mission was a failure because the political plan behind the NATO invasion did not include the education of all Afghans in true human rights. NATO left the country with none of its wrong ideas corrected.
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