The Pentagon has now fucked up two wars in a row and wasted trillions with no career consequences for failure, and not even much Congressional interest in what went wrong. The same pattern extends to prohibitively costly dead-end weapons programs. There's no way to fail at DoD
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Replying to @Pinboard
While investigating the DoD and their expenditures is a thing that should happen, failure here is on the civilian leadership that put the military in a situation where they couldn't win. What was "winning" in Afghanistan? What was the goal?
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The goals were to overthrow the Taliban [
]; capture or kill most of al Qaeda's leaders, including Osama bin Laden [
]; and set up a liberal republican government, with US-trained police and armed forces, that would retain control after we brought our troops home [
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Replying to @syskill @TheLongshot2112
I'd uncheck the first item there
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