Was It Worth It?

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"From its start in 2001 through April 2021, the war in Afghanistan has cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $2.261 trillion, according to estimates earlier this year from the Costs of War Project at Brown University.

The Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars of that training the Afghan Army for twenty years. The Afghan Army collapsed in one month as US forces left the country. It remains that not one general or politician will face consequences for this."

Here is the story;  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/20-years-war-afghanistan-has-cost-us-taxpayers-over-22-trillion


And how did our military's presence in Afghanistan serve to protect America's borders? How was our military's presence in Afghanistan possible without an official declaration of war from Congress?

Does spending billions then quitting a 'war' sound familiar? Viet Nam, maybe? Were we safer as Americans during that war? Were we any better off? Was anybody better off?

Wait! The CIA was better off. They ran the opium trade out of the golden triangle in Laos, Thailand, and Burma during the Viet Nam War. They even created Air America airlines to fly the opium products around the world. I wonder how much money the CIA made in that deal?

Hey, Afghanistan grows opium poppies too. In 2006, revenue from the poppy harvest brought in over $3 billion to Afghans. I wonder how much of a take the CIA had in that while 'our boys' were dying in another foreign country. Nah, the CIA wasn't involved.

Except Congressman Massie from Kentucky says they were. See here; https://newspunch.com/congressman-cia-afghan-opium/

Is warmongering to support an international drug cartel disguised as an agency of the federal government worthwhile to Americans, or our interests? It certainly is not Constitutional.

[Wake-up!]

Here is Judge Napolitano's take on the Afghan war;  https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/08/andrew-p-napolitano/looking-for-monsters-to-slay/