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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/04/16/...

Two trillion dollars. You can probably use your imagination to think of some better ways that money could have been spent instead of another lost war.

Fundamentally, the issue is competency. I guess I wouldn't be as furious if at least we had "won" and Afghanistan became a safe and prosperous democracy with some enshrined rights for people, but we didn't get that. We got absolutely nothing.

We flushed all that money down the toilet then walked away, and there will be no consequences of any kind for the people who are responsible.



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