Great post. One of the reason the 9/11 wars went so badly is because the concept of "war profiteering" had almost entirely disappeared from American politics by

Great post. One of the reason the 9/11 wars went so badly is because the concept of "war profiteering" had almost entirely disappeared from American politics by the 2000s. Or at least the political will to combat it was gone. When there was a draft and people were invested in the outcome of the wars, politicians made their names by going after war profiteers.