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I agree. It is inevitable I think. I am glad the US is pulling out - there is no way we can fund the war anymore and regardless of what happens in Afghanistan,
by systemvoltage 5y ago
I agree. It is inevitable I think. I am glad the US is pulling out - there is no way we can fund the war anymore and regardless of what happens in Afghanistan, I would vote for no-more-war at every opportunity, including ending all the current ones.
- chmod600 5y agoWhy do you say the US can't fund the war? What percentage of the government budget is spent in Afghanistan?
- systemvoltage 5y agoI'd rather spend war funds on building our own infrastructure. American infra is falling apart. I think regardless of the %, it is simple - Afghan war has an opportunity cost.
- LatteLazy 5y agoRemember, not long before the war on terror Clinton had managed to balance the budget. What's the deficit at now? Not all of that is Afghanistan of course. There was Iraq 2 too. And a bunch of other conflicts. And 2 rounds of tax cuts. I'd include 2008 bailouts but I think they ran at a profit in the medium term?
- LatteLazy 5y agoThe cheapest option was to do nothing. The best opinion was nation building. The US choose to pay for nation building but give up before any nations were built. The worst of all possible worlds. There is an approach to politics that basically says people create excess value (more than they need to survive), and all politics is just deciding what to spend that on. Each "side" will sometimes squander resources just to stop the other "side" getting them: someone on the left will gold plate social security so that someone on the right can't use the money for tax cuts. I never really subscribed to the theory, but I have to admit the "war on terror" seemed designed from day one to bankrupt the US treasury. Either the people in charge were all really stupid or it was intended, and I don't think they were all stupid.