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Can you check for me how many hundreds of trillions the US spent in Afghanistan and what they got for it? 18 years, More than $2Trillion, For nothing. What s

• altacc 2y ago
  Personally I thought that there should never have been an invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq, so I would have saved all of that money. The US decided to go into these countries, nobody asked them to do so and experts in the region said at the time that it would be a costly disaster and the US still chose to invade. The US chose to spend that money and lives because they had already priced the transaction: vengeance in Afghanistan and regional control in Iraq. The US forced itself into other countries because the US thought it was to its benefit and so then expecting that country to pay for the privilege is ridiculous and revisionist. The US thought it was buying something but instead it made a terrible gamble and lost.
• pintxo 2y ago
  More like another 30. The best thing would have been to never go there in Force. Bomb the terrorists to pieces if you must, but don’t force yourself upon others, especially if those others have a 2000 year history of killing those who tried this. The next best thing, after going there in Force would have been a full re-build of their government + societe into something that would have worked for the benefit of the locals. But that’s a multi-generational project, 40 years plus.