1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.

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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.
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Appreciably better??? It’s unbelievably and undeniably worse
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When has the US made anything better through all their unjustified bankster wars?
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And here comes the Taliban takeover of the base. Makes for a nice going away present.
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It's the American way. We have a history of this.
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never should have went there to begin with.....
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Not to mention the 50,000 Afghan civilians.
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The Afghan women have seen how much our female soldiers are respected and followed. In 20 years, much has been done behind closed doors.
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Not for nothing. A lot of very corrupt people became much more wealthy than they already were off of the 9/11 reactions.
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Even needs to read the American Empire books from Dr Chalmers Johnson if you truly want to grasp the extent of our empire and the bloat of our military, as well as the harm it does even on a "peace footing"
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