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Without numbers to compare what was spent in Afghanistan vs a specific domestic program, it's hard to evaluate your comment.
by chmod600 5y ago
Without numbers to compare what was spent in Afghanistan vs a specific domestic program, it's hard to evaluate your comment.
- newnamenewface 5y agoThe war in Afghanistan cost north of $800 bn. Free college would cost $80 bn a year. Ball park numbers.
- Mizza 5y agoIt's much higher than that, we've spent over $530bn just on _interest_ on the debts the war required.
- Mizza 5y agohttps://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/04/16/afghanistan-war-cost-more-than-2t-and-240000-lives-report-finds/ 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.