Scott’s book deserves not just to be read, but to be kept on your shelf, because as with David Halberstam’s The Best and Brightest or Neil Sheehan’s A Bright Shining Lie, I expect Horton’s book to not just explain and interpret a current American war, but to explain and interpret the all too predictable future American wars, and the unavoidable waste and suffering that will accompany them.” - Capt. “Scott Horton’s, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, is a definitive, authoritative and exceptionally well-resourced accounting of America’s disastrous war in Afghanistan since 2001. congressman and author of Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity Scott Horton’s Afghan war history is an important contribution to this vital effort.” - Ron Paul, M.D., former U.S. war in Afghanistan must be written so that future generations may understand the folly of Washington’s warmongers. I highly recommend this excellent book on America’s futile and self-defeating occupation of Afghanistan.” - Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner “In Fool’s Errand, Scott Horton masterfully explains the tragedy of America’s longest war and makes the case for immediate withdrawal.
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