I think both parties can agree walking away from Afghanistan should have happened long ago.
I think both parties can agree walking away from Afghanistan should have happened long ago.
Walking away from the Middle East entirely
Including foreign aid to Israel, Chris?
the treatment of in theater allies has been and continues to be shameful:
civilian casualties likely much higher than estimates:
Matt Taibbi: McConnell getting so many Dems to vote for the resolution rebuking Trump's announced pullouts from Syria and Afghanistan could damage the Dems and help Trump in 2020.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...mpression=true
Here’s a crisp little essay by Chas Freeman on our strategically misbegotten, 14 trillion dollars and counting, ongoing wars in west Asia:
https://chasfreeman.net/ready-fire-a...raq-and-syria/
Some time ago, Iraq was where
We looked for stuff that wasn’t there
We haven’t found it to this day,
And yet we feel obliged to stay.
US General Says US Troops To Stay In Afghanistan 'Several More Years'
Trump making peace with a vengeance in Afghanistan:
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4181084002From Jan. 1 through October, U.S.-led forces have used 6,208 missiles and bombs in Afghanistan. That compares with 5,982 for the same period in 2018, which saw the most airstrikes of any year since the Taliban was toppled in 2001.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/us-s...001-study.htmlAmerica has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says
PUBLISHED WED, NOV 20 201910:47 AM ESTUPDATED WED, NOV 20 20192:19 PM EST
Amanda Macias@AMANDA_M_MACIAS
KEY POINTS
- The U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion since they began in 2001.
- That total is $2 trillion more than all federal government spending during the recently completed fiscal year.
- The report, from Watson Ins ute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, also finds that more than 801,000 people have died as a direct result of fighting.
US Drone Strike Kills New Mother, Civilians In Afghanistan
AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress.
They were not, and they knew it,
A confidential trove of government do ents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that
senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign,
making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and
hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-do ents/
U.S. spent $9 billion failing to wipe out Afghan opium
Afghanistan is far and away the world’s largest opium producer and
has been for the entire period since the US invaded and occupied the country in late 2001.
Afghan farmers were cultivating about 60,700 hectares of opium poppies in the late 1990s,
but around 121,400 hectares a year in the mid-2000s.
As the US occupation dragged on,
opium cultivation generally climbed throughout the 2010s,
peaking at more than 323,700 hectares in 2017.
That equates to about 9 tons of raw opium produced that year,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1904607
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Obama/Bush/Trump Lied Repeatedly About Afghan War-- Do ents Reveal
"Afghanistan Papers" Only Show Us What We Should Already Know Yet Choose To Ignore & It's Everywhere
US Bombs Afghan Hospital While The Pentagon Now Refuses To Even Comment On The Afghan War
Pentagon Is Now Outright Dismissing The PROOF That Americans Were Lied To About Afghanistan War
Another American Killed In Afghanistan & Trillion More For War In 2020, Despite All The Exposed Lies
another example:
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