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Is that what we were doing in Afghanistan? We were there to build a democracy of institutions? Or were we there to pillage a country? I'm not a fan o
by JohnBooty 5y ago
Is that what we were doing in Afghanistan? We
were there to build a democracy of institutions?
Or were we there to pillage a country?
I'm not a fan of the US' occupation of Afghanistan, and I don't think the US was there for some sort of higher ideal... but, pillage? It's not a country from which there is much wealth to extract.
Of course, the US military-industrial complex profited nicely. That's not quite the same as pillaging, though.
- rjzzleep 5y agoExcept of course for the Trillion worth of mineral wealth found in 2010[0], that the Afghan government has been spending $300 million per year on(probably to US contractors)[1]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.htm... [1] https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-taliban-to-reap-1-trillion-mineral-wealth/a-58888765 https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-taliban-to-reap-1-trillion...