Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute: The United States Has Declared Defeat in Two More Wars
President Biden announced last week that he planned to remove all combat troops from Afghanistan by September, which he says will mark the end of what is now a twenty-year war in the central Asian country.
A week earlier, the US and Iraq reaffirmed a deal to withdraw “any remaining combat forces” from Iraq, and to further wind down the US involvement there, which dates back to the 2003 invasion.
In both cases, of course, the stated plans to end military intervention have been framed in polite language designed to make it look like the US is leaving on its own terms—and also to allow the US regime some level of plausibility when it claims “mission accomplished.”
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WNU Editor: It is too early to say that the U.S. is leaving Iraq and Afghanistan. The final U.S. departure from Iraq has yet to be determined, and I expect the Afghan conflict will now be shifting toward a war fought by US-employed contractors.
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"The United States Has Declared Defeat in Two More Wars "
I like the Von Mises Institute a lot. I don't agree with the headline. Don't you have to fight a war to lose it?
Wars being fought by contractors? Do we evac them, if they get in trouble? Do we pile in of they get in trouble. Do we just let them die?
There is a balance of power between contractors and contractees. Ask Hawkwood.
Given how stupidly American is governed it is best that the US loses so it will change its leadership, philosophy and civics.
The US spent 10's of trillions since 9/11 on waste, fraud and abuse accomplishing nothing but near bankruptcy.
12:26 Did you mother regurgitate her bile into you mouth like a penguin and it vomited up out of you like the stankiest diarrhea of the mouth ever?
US Spending on 'War on Terror' Above $6 Trillion, Will ...
10's of trillions is not 6 Trillion.
War on Terror Facts, Costs, and Timeline
www.thebalance.com/war-on-terror-facts-costs-timeline-3306300
Per The Balance, the amount spent was just under 2 Trillion
Maybe your mother did not regurgitate. Maybe it was a one shot through her to you.
Anon 4:14 PM your comment is as vile as I have ever seen. Is it you, Fred?
Total budgetary cost in the U.S. of the war on terror by category FY 2001-2020
If you had a message for us when you started typing, 4:14, you certainly lost me.
You're a bit disturbing. And frankly don't belong here.
Belong here every bit as much as 12L27
81>74
10's of trillions >6
Solid comment.
His handle is Aizino Smith. Few days ago I baited him into admitting his identity, see "Jay faquarson" comments. This coward has hijacked this site for many years now. But keep him busy, quite sure you are helping women and children from abuse.
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