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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Replying to @marwilliamson
If you ask the Defense Contactors, they think it was worth it big time. Funny I found out my family was hiding my middle East heritage from me.
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The only really important questions are: 1/ who controls the poppy fields and 2/ how many women and children were able to escape to places where they have more freedom and safety
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Replying to @marwilliamson
And more then 1-2 million Afghan life fking biased thinking only about ur people but the one who you guys killed! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Yes you lost, but don’t use that to justify staying another 20 years
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The recipients of the $2T surely see it differently..
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Replying to @marwilliamson @imattezai
What about a million innocent Afghans killed. Doesn’t that innocent blood have any value?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The post-9/11 military occupations did nothing to ideology itself. Why would we think it would? I questioned it in 10/2001.
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The situation consistently got worse while we were there. Every year we stayed in Afghanistan the Taliban gained more territory.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Exactly.. welcome to the war on terror. The war on islam hasn't succeeded in 1400 years.. regardless of who has tried.. the light of Allah cant be extinguishd
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Hey it’s okay because a few assholes got really really rich off of it!!!!
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