Originally Posted By: Todd
At the end of the day, we can wring our hands and have fake outrage over all the money and lives wasted in Afghanistan, and argue all day about whose fault it all is...but this was never a war intended to be "won", it accomplished its entire goal with flying colors, and that was to take a trillion dollars of taxpayer money and transfer it into the coffers of the Military/Industrial complex...as is the American Way, massive fuckin Socialism for the massively fuckin rich.

Mission Fuckin Accomplished.

The neocons who started this war are the ones responsible for taking our money and trading a few thousand dead Americans to feed that machine.

Any other chatter about it is just that; chatter.

Any talk about fighting for "freedom" is flat out stupid; there was nothing of the sort happening in Afghanistan or Iraq.

It was about money at the beginning, it was about money in the middle, and it's about money now.


For once I agree with Todd. I just wanted to add this as another category of graft and corruption. The Afghan National Army's ranks were somewhere between 50%-70% "ghost" soldiers that do not and never did exist but because the American taxpayer still payed their salaries, the drug dealing warlords embezzled these funds. I'm sure there is graft and corruption on our side too, but not nearly as brazen.