“A Big Money Funneling Operation” — Afghanistan Vet Reflects On Withdrawal Of US Forces mtracey.substack.com/p/a-big-money-…
Photos of vehicles and other equipment being left behind at bases as the US withdraws really obscure that chronic, accountability-free waste of resources was a systemic feature of the entire 20 year intervention 
Chuck Todd splashed this scary-looking map on the screen Sunday to warn about the US withdrawal. Red = Taliban. Scary! But Chuck didn't mention that the inability of US-aligned forces to retain territory owes to a systemic flaw with the intervention itself -- not the withdrawal
I didn't put this in the article but on the same "Meet the Press" broadcast Adam Kinzinger, the anti-Trump GOP darling of every cable news booker, said it's not a matter of "if" but "when" the US will return militarily to Afghanistan. They're already setting the stage
People claim to be so alienated and disenchanted with “regime change,” etc. But the logic of interventionism always inevitably bubbles up again, just with a slight context shift
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1415071630863257600
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