US 否定するs public was lied to about Afghanistan
US 国防長官 示す Esper (L) and 共同の 長，指導者s Chairman General 示す Milley (R) 拒絶するd the idea that the 米国防総省 for years hid from the public its 欠如（する） of 進歩 in the Afghanistan 衝突
最高の，を越す US 弁護 公式の／役人s 否定するd on Friday that the 軍の had for years hidden from the public its 欠如（する） of 進歩 in the Afghan war.
弁護 長官 示す Esper and 共同の 長，指導者s Chairman General 示す Milley 拒絶するd 主張s that the 米国防総省 and other 政府 機関s had 誤って 報告（する）／憶測d 進歩 while internally 公式の／役人s were 深く，強烈に skeptical about the war.
"This has been very transparent. It's not like this war was hiding somewhere," Esper told reporters.
"Between all the folks looking at this 衝突 over the years, some type of insinuation that there's been this large-規模 共謀 is just, to me, ridiculous," he said.
追加するd Milley: "I know there's an 主張 out there, of some sort of 連係させた li e over the course of 18 years... I find that a mischaracterization."
"I know that I and many, many others gave 査定／評価s at the time based on facts that we knew at the time," he said.
"And those were honest 査定／評価s and they were never ーするつもりであるd to deceive either the 議会 or the American people."
Last week The Washington 地位，任命する began publishing what it called "The Afghanistan Papers," a trove of 内部の 政府 文書s 文書ing the 失敗 to 敗北・負かす the Islamist Taliban group and to 強化する the Afghan 政府.
The 地位，任命する said the 文書s "否定する a long chorus of public 声明s from US 大統領，／社長s, 軍の 指揮官s and 外交官s who 保証するd Americans year after year that they were making 進歩 in Afghanistan and the war was 価値（がある） fighting."
- 'Very good' journalism -
US 軍隊／機動隊s at the 場所／位置 of a 自殺 attack in Kabul on October 13, 2014
Milley called the 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測ing "a very, very good piece of investigative journalism."
But he 主張するd that 文書s were "backwards-looking" interviews and 査定／評価s made to review the US experience and not to mask it -- unlike the 米国防総省 Papers, which when 漏れるd in 1971 showed much more manipulative 行為 by the 政府 over the Vietnam war .
Milley said US 軍隊s have been successful in やじ out Al-Qaeda, the Afghanistan-based jihadist group behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, and to punish their protectors, the Taliban.
"Our 初めの 客観的な going into Afghanistan on the seventh of October, 2001 was to 妨げる Afghanistan from ever again becoming a 壇・綱領・公約 to 開始する，打ち上げる テロリスト attacks on the continent of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs," he said.
"And that's what we 始める，決める out to do and to date that's been successful.
"For years we have 明確に 明言する／公表するd that there's not going to be a 合理的な／理性的な, reasonable chance of a 軍の victory against the Taliban or the 暴動," Milley said.
"大統領 Bush said that, 早期に on, before Christmas in 2001. And that remains true today."
- US 使節団 still not 完全にする -
A US 海洋 patrols through an Afghan village in Farah 州, southern Afghanistan, on September 29, 2009
With 13,000 US 軍隊／機動隊s still in the country and the Taliban as strong as ever, Milley called the 状況／情勢 a "戦略の 行き詰まらせる" that can only be solved by a 交渉するd peace 解決／入植地 between the Taliban and the Kabul 政府.
He 強調するd that th e 部隊d 明言する／公表するs had a "決定的な 国家の 安全 利益／興味" to be in the country.
"Our 兵士s, sailors, airmen and 海洋s who have given their lives in Afghanistan have not given their lives in vain."
Esper said the 米国防総省 had an important 推論する／理由 to be 現在の.
"We have a 使節団 in Afghanistan that is to 確実にする that it never again becomes a 安全な 港／避難所 for テロリストs," he said.
"So until we are 確信して that that 使節団 is 完全にする, we will 保持する a presence to do that."
