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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We thought we could do better than Russia. They got their ass kicked for 20 years, so did we.
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We stopped terrorism for 20 years and gave the Afghans 20 years to decide what sort of society they wanted.
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GIF
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Precisely! US & British politicians intermittently& regularly launch electioneering campaigns2”rid countries of evil dictatorships” then to “bring our troops home” meanwhile the victims of gross political misconduct & ignorance are left dead & no better off; criminal #TonyBlair
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It is for the weapons manufacturers etc who have that $2TRN
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2400 is a bare minimum count. Add in multinational forces, contractors, civilians then add in injured and mentally damaged- it dwarfs the basic bottom line expendatures
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Don't forget half a million Afghans lost their lives,two million were displaced and we have one million orphan kids due to US led occupation of Afghanistan
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A few people got rich off that two trillion so there's that....
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That’s because there was never any intention to make the situation better.
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Yes most sensible people knew the outcome when it first started Vietnam 2.0 . How many senseless wars does it take for the US to learn the lesson.
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