How The US Should Have Spent The Afghanistan War Budget

Name: How The US Should Have Spent The Afghanistan War Budget
Uploaded: 2021-08-27T20:44:27
Duration: 18 min
Description: If you’ve turned on the news in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen plenty of coverage of the disastrous situation in Afghanistan. Two decades and over two trillion dollars later, what does the US - or Afghanistan - have to show for our brutal and prolonged occupation? How could that money have been better spent? – Second Thought Support Second Thought on Patreon.

If you’ve turned on the news in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen plenty of coverage of the disastrous situation in Afghanistan. Two decades and over two trillion dollars later, what does the US - or Afghanistan - have to show for our brutal and prolonged occupation? How could that money have been better spent? – Second Thought

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