What happened to the weapons, fuel, drones, planes, and other resources the United States provided to the now-defunct Afghanistan government? What happened to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police officers who abandoned their posts? What happened to the women and girls, and the others who supported the failed nation-building project? These are just a few of the questions that the Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John Sopko, intends to investigate before his office closes in about a year, he said on Sept. 14. Sopko and his SIGAR agency are the authors of what has been dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers”—a previously secret history of the war, akin to what the Pentagon Papers were for the Vietnam War. His work revealed in December 2019 that U.S. officials falsely told the public about alleged progress in Afghanistan for years, while acknowledging in private that the nation-building efforts were …