Those in America that don't like the tyranny of our big gubmnit telling us what to do, love nothing better than for our big gubmint telling other smaller gubmints what to do. And taxes should be lower and lower but bombs bigger and bigger.
that comes out to: 2,149,815,250.25 per 9/11 victim. That's some pricey retribution. Probably should've taken the Taliban's offer 2 wks into the bombing to hand over Osama and just gave money to the 9/11 victims instead. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5
Stop comparing the military might of the U.S. to the Taliban..... we sent a couple of thousand troops to fight on someone else's unfriendly terrain without speaking the language or understanding the culture and putting in a puppet government and troops who had no loyalty to anything. The taliban were fighting for their God and for their homeland and were willing to live in caves and fight for decades. Military power means nothing on foreign soil against a determined adversary protecting their homeland. They beat us planting IEDs and hiding in plain sight and simply waiting. U.S. v. British in Revolutionary War.... Russia in Afghanistan U.S. in Vietnam U.S. in Korea U.S. in Iraq Anyone surprised is not a student of history and does not understand.... You either occupy and dominate a country 100% or you get out, there is no middle ground and the middle ground has been losing for hundreds of years no matter how much military might...
And to bounce off of this, look at colonial wars of conquest, from early civilization to our last ones. It's always a dominant group asserting their power over another or many others by all means necessary. Most often, decades or centuries later those subjugated rebelled and reclaimed their identity. Empires have formed and disappeared, cultures have completely disappeared under the thumb of ruthless dominance, while others bonded and morphed into hybrid integrative cultures.
and who is the ultimate beneficiary of this massive massive US spending? It might be China. China and the Taliban have been in contact, and they are neighbors. And China definitely has been studying the map / earth for centuries. Time for China to build the modern Silk Road through Afghanistan with high-speed rail line. And also mine the minerals and rare earth from Afghanistan soil which will benefit both China and Afghanistan. In a few more decades, who knows, Afghanistan will be one of the richest countries in the whole world. Afghanistan is a country that links China and the West. And Iran and China are good friends. So soon Afghanistan and Iran will prosper. what will happen centuries later? no idea. All the best to Afghanistan! We might not be around to witness the prosperity of Afghanistan.
superpowers come and go. Babylonian - first known superpower Egpyt Roman Empire Mongol empire British Empire Soviet Union United States - current superpower China? - projected superpower and who knows, the asteroid, supervolcano, or super Covid virus will reset everything to zero; the population has been increasing exponentially and the earth cannot cope with it at all. It seems like God did not design the earth to cope with a population of > 6 billion people.
A few years back there was a population scientist who estimated planet Earth could support "only ~ 3 Billion people in a healthy fashion".
$6.4T works out to ~ $25,000 on behalf of every man, woman, child in the US. How many of us wanted our government to spend that on warring, and did we get our money's worth?