We should have never been there (Afghanistan) in the first place.
9/11 occurred, we had the smartest president in the history of the US (George Bush Jr) declare war on Iraq (a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks). We take down Saddam Hussein (again, a guy that had nothing to do with 9/11, nor did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction) and destabilized the region, but didn't actually attack Al-Qaeda. $2 Trillion dollars was spent in the Iraq war alone.
We then assume the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks were hiding in Afghanistan. We stage a "made-for-TV" attack on Afghanistan were fighter jets fired missiles at a bunch of mountain areas that have probable caves beneath them. This gets the American people all riled up and cheerful. Slowly, Americans that actually read, realized that Afghanistan has never been conquered. Deemed the "graveyard of empires", it's a black hole for military conquests. Today, we have tallied up about $2.5+ Trillion in our efforts within Afghanistan. After 20 years in that country, it took the Taliban a few days to take it right back.
Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden was hiding in that Shangri-La of a place we call Pakistan. The USA didn't decide to annihilate Pakistan. Why not? Maybe, just maybe, the region didn't provide it with any key resources to further US interests. Who the fuck knows?!? What's worse is that we didn't even give Osama Bin Laden a rightful funeral. Osama Bin Laden's corpse should have been brought to the World Trade Center site, his arms and legs cemented into the center grounds between where the 2 World Trade Center buildings stood and should have had his bare face and torso left to open air so that all victims who lost family members can walk by on a daily basis and urinate or defecate onto his face/chest and furthermore post onto their social media apps. This is heroic. This is the American way. But no, instead he gets a proper burial by sea!?! Why???
Sorry for the rant, but all of this is just so fucking disturbing when you think about it all. Our US national debt is at about $28.6 Trillion (
https://www.usdebtclock.org/#), to think that about 17.5% of our National debt can be attributed to these 2 bullshit "WARS" in Irag & Afghanistan (accounting for about $5 Trillion) is absolute madness.
What did we accomplish with these wars aside from losing so many of our American brothers & sisters in the process and amassing massive debt today that becomes tomorrow's taxes for our children? We are chipping away at the quality of life that our future generations can have by funding these "wars" for the ultra rich and massive government institutions.
I say we pull out of Afghanistan and close the fucking book on it. We had no business in Vietnam, just as we had no business in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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