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
Taliban now controls 80% of the country. will be 100% within the next month or two.
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Against the war, favor leaving, but a case could be made that a lot of women professionals are much better off after two decades of access to education and advancement. Maybe nothing net, but a lot of little positives and negatives, not really nothing.
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And how many Afghan lives did it cost? Oh right - no bastard ever bothered to count them did they? Too busy harvesting the opium.
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Like Mike Gravel said in the 2008 Presidential debates… the US soldiers died in vain
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Imo the mrkn people won't bother to notice. They are too wrapped up in themselves to contemplate the death and destruction we have visited on Afghanistan. The last 4 presidents are war criminals!
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It was never about the taliban , it’s always been about siphoning natural resources.
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Not to mentions many Afghans that died in US strikes, more than Americans. That's a waste too. Don't forget about them. It was not US War in the first place but US decided to poke its nose for strategic gain. Shame of defeat is the price that will be paid
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"nothing* is measured on what?
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Well we lost our freedoms, they had it, we needed it back. Quite simply, watch Austin powers for an explanation
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Afghanistan is For afghans only.
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