Afghanistan 2011 Kerry Trip
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The Afghanistan 2011 Kerry trip was a visit John Kiriakou made to Afghanistan as senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then chaired by John Kerry. After landing at Bagram Airbase, the pair sat through a briefing with 11 generals, ranging from one to four stars, who presented a slide-by-slide account of the war effort that was, in Kiriakou's telling, entirely rosy, the U.S. moving here, beating the Taliban there, driving them back everywhere.

Coming out of the briefing, Kerry remarked that the U.S. might actually win the war. Kiriakou told him otherwise: the Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was, in effect, only "the mayor of Kabul," with the Taliban controlling the rest of the country, and, Kiriakou noted, the same optimistic briefing had been given to visiting officials every year since 2002.

See also

- John Kiriakou
- Kite Runner Afghanistan Trip
