https://www.cjr.org/criticism/the-images-that-tell-the-true-story-of-the-war-in-afghanistan.php

IMAGES FROM AFGHANISTAN HAVE ALWAYS REVEALED THE TRUTH behind the notion that the American war was on solid footing. We may have been told, since it first began shortly after September 11, 2001, that significant progress was just around the bend. But the pictures showed something else.