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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It’s nothing to do with making the situation better, it was all about transferring money to arms contractors and corporations. US cities are crumbling due to lack of infrastructure spending but there’s always money for war and weapons.
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They wanted the Poppys and oil. They didn't work to fix shit
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over 62,000 Afghan national security forces were killed, as well as over 31,000 civilians and even more Taliban. Blood all around.
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They were told. I read so many newspapers where it said nobody has won a war against Afghanistan, the terrain, and the Afghans now their territory. I believe some Roman emperor was the last one that won. i cannot believe politicians didn't know all of this.
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I am Australian, but it is the PROMISES that our respective nations made to these innocent human beings, that pisses me off the most @marwilliamson.
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Not true, we got an opiate crisis out of it.
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It's called the Industrial Military Complex and Eisenhower warned us all.
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It was never about the Taliban and Afghanistan freedom. It was a profit move for the corporations, they civilian leadership understood the assignment and corporate leaders get paid using our military and our funds.
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Any discussion that talks about America going to Afghanistan in 2001 and doesn't talk about America funding the mujahadeen from 1979 through the eighties, is missing a lot of the point.
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And that’s not all . Pictures like this are gonna Haunt them forever .
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