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IMO, it's hard to put a price on our security or what our service
people have sacrificed and none of them have ever fought for
socialism !
Well how has the over 1 trillion that we have spend over there made us more secure? How is the additional 100 billion we spending next year making us more secure. How do we know that all we are doing is training and arming the next group of people to attack us.
Little history lesson. We trained and armed afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Unfortunately for us, those same people that we trained and armed turned around and fought us. Will we never learn. Afghanistan is a tribal nation. They are not ready for democracy and if they are then they need to decide it on their own.
I may be the odd man out but I think we need to bring our wounded warriors home. We are not natrual desert rats and we do have borders to close. The money is better spent in the good ol USA.
I just read something about $36B to Russia to buy uranium for our nuclear plants. I think the whole thing was to drive the metals market up. .
We are in the middle east to ensure that oil is traded in US dollars. That was the deal cut with OPEC back in the day. If there were no reason for countries to hold dollars to purchase oil we would be in deep doo doo. Kinda like the euro is in now. They tried to get sadaam trading in euros but we quashed that and for a reason. Same with Libya and Khadaffi wanting to trade oil in african dinars.
Lets see that is 107 billion to build roads and infrastructure in a foreign country that harbored terrorists to kill us and money to train their military, which of course could be used to kill us.
We provide 107 billion to a foreign country, while at the same time we have idiots advocating taking away free lunch for poor children, cut social security for old people, reduce grants to our own law enforcement and we can't agree on a package to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
We need a new govt. This is not what the people of the U.S. want. WHo are our politicians representing?
Geez, that's about the same amount of money that will be spent on obama's junkets all over the world in 2012 isn't it?
Lets see that is 107 billion to build roads and infrastructure in a foreign country that harbored terrorists to kill us and money to train their military, which of course could be used to kill us.
We provide 107 billion to a foreign country, while at the same time we have idiots advocating taking away free lunch for poor children, cut social security for old people, reduce grants to our own law enforcement and we can't agree on a package to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
We need a new govt. This is not what the people of the U.S. want. WHo are our politicians representing?
I read that they are finally building railway from miami to Ft lauderdale...US looks like a third world country and billions sent overseas.......
I have to agree when Donald Trump last year was talking about how decimated US transit and airports are, and comparing it to all the money we give to China etc...
third world nation= what US politicians are creating.
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Well how has the over 1 trillion that we have spend over there made us more secure? How is the additional 100 billion we spending next year making us more secure. How do we know that all we are doing is training and arming the next group of people to attack us.
Little history lesson. We trained and armed afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Unfortunately for us, those same people that we trained and armed turned around and fought us. Will we never learn. Afghanistan is a tribal nation. They are not ready for democracy and if they are then they need to decide it on their own.
You know why they turned around and fought us, right? And you know what we learned from that, right? I guess we never learned it, at least according to you. I know what I learned from it.
I can't infer...I can only imply. You would be inferring, incorrectly that I don't place part of the blame on democrats. I blame congress and the WH for this. Non partisan issue. They both suck on this issue. We need to get our forces and our money out of afghanistan. There are better uses for it here.
Do you also hold them responsible for the mystery 520 billion? Now if you add up Iraq AND Afghanistan you'd have a trillion, methinks. However, you were railing against Afghanistan with an amazingly wrong high number. I find thisfascinating.
I don't own any opiate fields in Afghanistan, so this doesn't affect my security.
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