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Betteridge's law states "nothing".

• yowlingcat 7y ago
  I'm almost inclined to agree but I think that would be optimistic. The U.S got a lot of collateral damage to itself and that region for $2T. That $2T fed and grew a now hopelessly bloated war-hawk adjacent bureaucracy that continues to weigh the country down and waste a significant portion of the very sizable lower to middle-class tax payments, not to mention stoke nativist fears and increased police militarization domestically and an ever-present domestic surveillance apparatus, which can't even keep its own intel safe. Afghanistan is another step in a long line of post WWII follies that stretches back to Vietnam and earlier. What a tremendous waste of resources.