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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And the troops are still being praised for wasting all our taxes
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It’s disgusting because the MIC uses the facade of “support our groups” to shield themselves from any criticism of absolute failure in Afghanistan...even with the best military the world could buy- what a waste
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You are forgetting Afghani lives, but who cares about them right?
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You are forgetting Afghani lives, but who cares about them right??
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Actually, it's way, way worse
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America needs to mind their business clean up this country first we also know that the money america spends they get double back when they go into these other countries because it's not about democracy it's about resources
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Whatever happened to Bin Laden?
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Perfectly Said, European countries , Russian & USA, have always been in race to show down each other be it Afganistan, Syria or Iraq. .. they were never honest for a constructive role, played with the lives of people for their Interests. Same was in Afghanistan, with Zero Result
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and, we can say the same for Vietnam...
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Never is Marianne? But do you think Americans will learn?
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