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Here’s Mark Twain with British Lords who -- no doubt -- supported their empire's war on terror in Afghanistan a century ago.
 
Twain explains that “statesmen…invent cheap lies” about the reasons for wars in order to convince the public that imperialist wars are just.
 
To undo some of these cheap lies, here’s my whirlwind tour of recent Afghan history.