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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Wasted? The British/Wall Street-run drug-money-laundering and terrorist-networking operations got pretty wealthy. You might want to brush up on your history of the first and second Opium Wars against China. This is likely a set-up for Opium War III against China.
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marianne2020.com/issues/us-d… It is time…
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And we’re not leaving, just privatising
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I expect that we won't really leave Afghanistan. Or Iraq. Or Syria. Or Saudi Arabia. Or . . .
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But the MIC made profits that's all it mattered
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Would never question your allyship but not mentioning the Afghani death toll and psychic mayhem inflicted is a pretty American thing to do.
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And guess who pushed us to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond? Bet you know
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Nothing has changed but war profit was up
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People have been desensitized to the point where their outrage is an easy 140 chars. The only defense is offense. Cannot depend on the "goodwill" of the dogs of war!!
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They never say this about Iraq because the opposite is true. The 'dictator' they overthrew at least offered some basics like electricity.
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