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Given the current state of Afghanistan, the return on investment is definitely not worth it. Our grandchildren will be paying for this debt. This is $2T that c
by xyst 5y ago
Given the current state of Afghanistan, the return on investment is definitely not worth it. Our grandchildren will be paying for this debt.
This is $2T that could have went towards this country’s dismal healthcare system, funding social security, public education, and miscellaneous social programs.
Instead it has went directly to the DoD companies and private military contracting companies. $2T was literally stolen from the American people. This doesn’t even include the costs to support the few Afghan immigrants that we were able to extract and the healthcare towards the veterans that gave their limbs and life to the service.
As an American, I feel sick just thinking about it.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoA debt denominated in a fiat currency AND we might have spent 2T on the wards, but the full accounting has to include the full cost benefits of those expenditures, some of which could have been positive (in terms of financials).
- _RPL5_ 5y ago"This doesn’t even include the costs... " that the locals paid. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ I am sure Brown exaggerates the number of people killed and displaced, but even a conservative estimate is probably a pretty large number.
- hack-news 5y agoAmericans literally don't care about how many people they've killed, only if it was too expensive to do so. HN used to just flag these discussions, now given the situation this one will stand for a while and the sentiment will momentarily be more reasonable, but just wait for the next terrorist attack for all these American morons to lose their minds and commit further atrocities.