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It's Tuesday, December 17th.

Today, that's respond to the Afghanistan papers,

an Alaskan town facing an existential crisis, and a controversial new law in India.

Last week, the Post published a collection of secret documents and audio recordings

of government officials talking candidly about the failures of the war in Afghanistan,

and how those realities were hidden from the public.

Generals and ambassadors and aid workers and troops who said this war was a mess,

and our strategy failed, and we didn't know what we were doing.

They literally use those words.

That's Craig Whitlock, the reporter that broke the story and fought for years to make

the secret documents public.

While in one hand, it makes sense, because people have known the war hasn't been going well,

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