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
Defense contractors profited. That’s it.
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i’d hardly call resurrecting cia opium supply routes, halting the afghanistan oil pipeline, rare earth extraction & perpetual defense contractor paydays “nothing” 🙄
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Long time passing. When will they ever learn?
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Goes to show that improving the lives of Afghans was never the reason we went, wasn't our reason for staying, and, really, wasn't involved at all in any of our decision-making regarding Afghanistan. Makes sense. Imperialist war doesn't improve lives. Never has.
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If the intention was to set Afghanistan back, create civil strive in Afghanistan and allow corporate mercenary forces and corporate arms dealers to get wealthy, then it was a huge success. Don't be tricked into believing the war could have been a "success". That logic leads 2more
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Maybe it’s a good thing that we leave now and cut our losses. The alternative is permanent occupation, which would cost trillions more.
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Respectfully, it's NOT OUR COUNTRY. If anyone thinks we have a right to force any nation to conform to our ideals - then they can't talk shit when a foreign power does the same to us, on OUR soil. See how that works?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Not true. Think of how many military contractors we enriched along the way.
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Well, not completely for nothing, a few people got rich. So, there's that 🤷‍♂️😔
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But it was never about making the place better, it was about making the arms manufacturers and resource extractors richer and giving the Pentagon a lilly pad in the middle east for further conflict in the region.
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