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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Replying to @unter1000Augen
And then what happened?

Jul 3, 2021 · 1:45 PM UTC

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Nothing relevant to US national security reasulted from the invasion of Iraq. (but I think that was your point)