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Originally Posted by Fenris Wolf
But here lies the problem. We have a government that looks at all the costs both direct and supplemental and still feels that it is cost effective to be there. What ultimate goal they have set up for Iraq is worth the countless military and civilian lives and the billions of dollars spent and trillions of dollars to be spent.
That's why we continue to see rhetoric when you have one side say we are committed to meet U.S. withdrawal dates and then someone will come out and say well that all depends on the situation on the ground and the current security climate will dictate how many troops leave and how fast.
We are all tired but the government doesn't seem to be.
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There is a simple reality in play here in the US economy that no one seems to
care to acknowledge :
Plain and simple :
Dead soldiers don't pay rent, don't buy clothes, don't buy food, don't buy cars, etc...
Further, badly wounded troops don't get jobs, but still need medical attention for
life. So they don't pay rent, buy cars, food etc... with their earned money because
the US government is going to pay.
This kills the small businesses in the "military towns".
Then we get the lay offs and the domino affect of civilians not being able to
work and buy.
When 911 happened I heard many reports stating that Osama Bin Laden said
he welcomed war with America because his goal was to ruin the US economy.
Osama used this same method against the Soviet Union and it worked and the
Soviet Union collapsed and no longer exist.
Denial of the economic toll these war have had on America is killing our economy even
more.
No invading power of Afghanistan has ever been capable of maintaining power.
We are suffering for an arrogant delusion that we can.
All that came eventually lost, no matter how many years it took.
We will never defeat the Taliban to the extent that they cannot return to fight again
with the current level of force that we are using.
We lost. Lets just get the fuck out.
The only thing we are doing over there now is capturing a small area of dirt from
a small faction of Taliban and they just move to another patch of dirt to regroup
and it starts all over again as we leave on patch of dirt to go take another patch
of dirt and the Taliban just go back to the patch of dirt we just left.