An eight trillion dollar windfall to the merchants of death. For example the current Secretary of "Defense" whose previous job was a director at Raytheon. He personally got a share od thet.
3,000 people died, which is bad, but the response was utterly moronic, as is our utterly moronic response to COVID.
We could have turned the mountains of Afghanistan into glass and went home sending a historic message...but the neocons, many here, wanted something else. We also could have let COVID run its course and not fk’d our economy over.
Americans have had it way to good for way too long, which had turned us into low testosterone snivelers who can’t handle diversity and just throw asssloads of money at everything that bothers us.
In this case, we butchered a bunch of troops and destabilized the Mideast, just to fk it all up on the exfil.
Our government has become an evil monster that needs to be stopped.
And don’t forget DHS and the fortification of everything that a scummy contractor with his hand in the public till could imagine a terrorist might hit.
The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda MD is one of the best defended places on earth.