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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A few people made a lot of money and the Taliban get all of the infrastructure and weapons left behind. At least it was infrastructure week somewhere.
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This is America.
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The only reason for war
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Other than loved lost, not much different from VietNam.
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It is to pre-emptively derail any argument that our forces are stretched too thin . . . when they announce our next victim. Iran? China? Russia?
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Long live Marianne Williamson!
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The $2T was for the military industrial complex. Sigh.
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Oh, but the strategic mineral extraction contracts and deals are done and the money will flow to the 'right' people...so, its all good.
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I imagine things look appreciably better as a result of the Iraq war & invasion of Afghanistan for the Halliburton stockholders who made out like bandits. That prosperity was at the public’s expense, in blood & treasure, with the worst costs borne by the people of those countries
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America won the war in Afghanistan like it won the War on Drugs
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