Sheldon Richman on Obama's Failures in Afghanistan

In his latest major address on foreign policy, President Obama said, "The Afghan war is coming to an end." If this and the usual sycophantic news reporting is all you've heard lately about the war in Afghanistan, you might think things are going well, that "America's forces are winning." But as Sheldon Richman explains, the reality is that the Obama Administration has continuously deceived us about how bad the war in Afghanistan is going.
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