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 th

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.