Why is USA still in Afghanistan?
Opium
>>137280890
pharmaceutical supplies
The CIA is a cartel trafficking in human misery.
>>137280890
The military is a jobs program, and no president will admit we fucked up and stand by while the country we invaded dissolves into pure shit.
Cause it's fun. Why else?
>>137280890
profits for bankers and weapons manufacturers
it's a perfect war, everyone gains something from it. the military industrial and development corporations get astronomical contracts to build a base that will never be used, or school that will fall apart almost before being built. every time an ied explodes under the humvee that counts as more combat experience which translates into combat patches, medals, and promotion for some major into corporal. there is an entire generation of people who made their career on afghanistan
>>137280890
Not enough young men have arthritis in their knees and back.
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>corporal
colonel*
>>137280890
opium and live milspec training activities