Content by Mike Lofgren
The Afghanistan quagmire was never going to end peacefully
Sold to the public as an incursion capture Osama bin Laden after 9/11, the Afghanistan war soon morphed into an occupation that was destined to fail
Mike Lofgren is a former congressional staff member who served on both the House and Senate budget committees. His books include: "The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government" (2016) and "The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted" (2013).