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
All the lazy ass investors of the military industrial complex are extremely rich so
Replying to @marwilliamson
Well, the CIA got their poppies..
Imagining the US ever cared about lives in Afghanistan is the utmost in gullibility... its clear politicians dont even care about lives in the US, except those of the ruling class
…and America's vital and strategic national interests and security are once again open to attack.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Afghanistan, graveyard of Empires, any history book will tell you
Replying to @marwilliamson
it wasn't for "nothing" we made it worse. so technically its a net-negative
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But the MIC beast was fed. I suppose that’ll have to do???
Replying to @marwilliamson
Well the money isn’t really spent for “the war “, you know that . Follow the money .