The recent revelations in the “Afghanistan Papers” is nothing unknown for those who cared to take notice. It is a revelation in the sense that it took the mainstream media so long to report on the real war in Afghanistan. It was a revelation homogenised and packaged with legitimacy and “credible” journalism that could now be consumed by the mob, the apathetic masses who rarely delve into the depth of consequences spread in their name and often with their support. It turns out that lies, lies and more lies were spread from the outset and despite these many lies, those who should have known...