1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)

2. What did the documents obtained by The Washington Post reveal former officials told government interviewers about Bush and Obama?

3. What did special envoy under Bush and Obama criticize President Bush for doing?

4. What strategy and what promise made by President Obama were “inevitably doomed to fail” as revealed in the documents?
b) What faulty assumptions was the strategy made up of, according to Col Bob Crowley?

5. What do you think of the leadership of Presidents Bush and Obama in allowing the deception on Afghanistan to continue for almost 20 years?

6. a) By whom and when was the “Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction” established?
b) How many people with firsthand knowledge of the war were interviewed?

7. This is not encouraging. No one will be held accountable for this mess. But now, going forward, the Trump administration has been working to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban militants.

Then-presidential candidate Trump called for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, noting we had been there far too many years without winning.

President Obama had vowed to remove all troops from Afghanistan while he was in office. Various politicians agreed or disagreed with them.

Ask a parent: what do you think? What is the best strategy now? Is it best to negotiate a truce and completely leave Afghanistan? Please explain your answer.