Where is the outrage over Afghanistan? So much of our money was spent on this catastrophic failure while so many people in own country struggle with basic needs. I'm furious. Why is this colossal waste of money tolerated by the upper middle classes?
The general populace, those that supply their children as cannon/IED fodder, has no control of the "game". I propose that all of Congress and those that work for the federal gov't must send their children into these wars as general infantry. Let's see what happens to our forever wars then.
One does not send their adult children anywhere.
You might argue that only legislators with children in the military are allowed to vote on certain bills. But that would be unconstitutional.
Can't fight privileged exploitation with outraged incoherence.
Two trillion dollars. You can probably use your imagination to think of some better ways that money could have been spent instead of another lost war.
Fundamentally, the issue is competency. I guess I wouldn't be as furious if at least we had "won" and Afghanistan became a safe and prosperous democracy with some enshrined rights for people, but we didn't get that. We got absolutely nothing.
We flushed all that money down the toilet then walked away, and there will be no consequences of any kind for the people who are responsible.