WASHINGTON— Twenty years ago, the mission seemed direct, clear and just: invade Afghanistan and pursue, capture or kill Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/ 11 terrorist attacks, and his armed band of followers....
Achieving that goal also included overthrowing the Taliban, and steadily the mission morphed into a vast, complicated experiment to reshape a society that few Americans understood....
Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concurred while also recognizing broader bl
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