US Debt is €23 trillion, actual spend on Afghanistan is 10% of that figure via all the Govt agencies and Afghanistan is less safe for the population than it was in 2001 !!!!
US warned Iran in 1998 that if it sought to go into Afghanistan then, to take action after 10 diplomats had been murdered in Herat, then the US would intervene, even when everybody knew what the Taliban were like.
Couple of months before 9/11 Collin Powell was handing the Taliban cash for reducing opium production.
In Nov 2001 visiting NYC, a lady friend there was engaged to a 8yr vet from Ft Bragg units, he said "No single person he knew thought going to Afghanistan was a good idea, but nobody was speaking out as it would be treason". He recruited at weekends etc for USCG and had for 10 yrs.
Seems West is full of people who deride ANYBODY who questions their desire for war as Terrorist Appeasers.
But all those who made money from it are generous in the "Thank you for your service" refrain and some charitable giving. All the while ignoring 1-2 million people, vets, their families and friends who lives have been destroyed plus the Afghani people.
If standing up and questioning your countrys stupidity, again and again, makes a person a terrorist appeaser, especially when the outcome they said is proven. What does it make the cheerleaders for war who happily destroy their countrys economy by borrowing money they can never repay or destroying countles lives in a bloodlust.