seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Your assumption that any expenditure of money is reasonable to support our troops on the ground. You have no argument from me.
The argument, or at least a point of discussion would be to ask a couple of “Why” followup questions. These inevitably end up with “Why are our troops still there fighting the Taliban.”
THAT is the point of discussion that has to take place. Were those eight Taliban a threat the the National Security of the United States?
I would suggest that in the grand scheme of things, they are not. They are bad guys and they are a threat to civilized people in Afghanistan—but that is not our problem. We blew up the people that were the problem to us.
After a while we are going to have to say, “enough.” Our guys and women did their job and they did it well. But our war was NOT supposed to be against the Taliban—it was against AQ.
I know many people on this forum are unable to loosen their bite once its laid in. But in this example, we are wasting people—good, honorable, and exceptionally well trained people and material, on a target that does not matter.
And that is the worst use of force that can be imagined. Those eight Taliban soldiers were NOT going to impact life in America, to American families and the future of our country than the loss of the SEALs and all of the wasted effort.
It is my wish that we risk lives when it matters. Any other use is a waste of time, material and mostly, warriors.