The war in Afghanistan has cost US taxpayers $2.26 trillion.

[sprinkleeninow]

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On PBS News Hour just now. Astounding. It's only money coming out of us, the taxpaying public. No big whoop.

Thanx architects and purveyors of this capital waste.

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[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. And how many lives ? and how many families lost a member or had somebody maimed ?

RIP don you dumb pos
hopefully the Dick and W can join you soon
So you can all ROT in Hell

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. It's been a war experiment.

It's all about testing war Technolgy..

[Shellback Squid]

4. +1000

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Wonder how many roofs could have solar panels on them with a govt subsidy of $2.26 trillion?

I'm thinking that number would be pretty significant.

Or for that matter, how many nuclear power plants could've been built?

Human beings propensity to OVER estimate the threat from other humans, and UNDER estimate the threat from realities related to the planet, weather, resources, disease, etc ... is well documented.

And it's probably going to be the death of us all.

[Skittles]

5. yes

notice how repukes never bring this up when complaining about wasting taxpayer money

[ZZenith]

6. Wonder who made all that 2.3 trillion.

No I don’t, I know damn well who did.

[Retrograde]

7. And how much wen into Rumsfeld's pockets?

Or those of his friends?

[Baked Potato]

8. Defense contractor stocks were lucrative, no? Nt

[sanatanadharma]

9. American exceptionalism

American exceptionalism

Twenty years
Countless lives
2.3 trillion dollars
The Taliban retaking control of Afghanistan
PNAC, the project for a new American century is a complete failure
The USA is on path of breaking up into war-lord fiefdoms
Armed "sovereign citizens are freely defying police in Massachusetts as I write

[onethatcares]

10. did we "win"?

It would be nice to not have a war going on for a while. It's been a long time since we've been at peace.

[Klaralven]

11. How much was paid to suppliers in other countries? E.g. fuel from Central Asia?

The war in Afghanistan required vast amounts of fuel for aircraft, armored vehicles, electricity generation, heating, etc.

We also supplied the Afghan military.

It was bought in Central Asia or the Middle East and transported via very difficult and expensive routes by contractors to Afghanistan.

That's just one category of supplies.

[peggysue2]

12. All that blood and treasure

All for naught. We're pulling out now and Afghanistan will turn back to what it's always been: a graveyard of Empires. I feel genuinely sorry for the Afghan people, the women and children in particular, and those who helped American forces over the years. They will be the focus of revenge and violence.

Huge mistake. We should have learned a serious lesson after Vietnam. But public and political memory is short, something that's led us to this disastrous conclusion.

I'm glad we're ending this 'forever' war. But the cost to everyone has been ghastly.

[Calculating]

13. Total and complete waste

That money could have helped a lot of people here, or built dozens of new nuclear and plants to help us fight climate change. May George w, Cheney, and rumsfeld go straight to hell

[sarcasmo]

14. War for profit is no problem for the GOP. Infrastructure, the GOP says no way.

[inwiththenew]

15. This process should have started 10 years ago when Bin Laden was killed

Instead we wasted 10 years and God knows how much money on what? Just absolutely stupid.