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Trump joins Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not having officially brought the United States into a new war since 1945.
"Officially" lol
Obama did send troops into Syria, invasion of a foreign country, that is a fact.
Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.
Estimated interest payments on that $2 trillion so far (based on a higher-end estimate of interest rates): $925 billion.
Estimated interest costs by 2030: $2 trillion.
Estimated interest costs by 2050: $6.5 trillion.
THE WARS END. THE COSTS DON'T:
Amount Bilmes estimates the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans: $1.6 to $1.8 trillion.
The population of Afghanistan is 38 million.
American taxpayers could've given $2 trillion to Afghans. Everyone would've got $52,631. That would've been enough to buy a house, food, car and live happily ever after.
The Trump Admin and the Taliban executed a withdrawal of troops agreement in February, 2020 in exchange for the Taliban cutting all ties with Al Qaeda. The Afghan government was purposely left out of negotiations and the deal.
For the obvious reasons, the majority troop withdrawal had to occur before 2020 Election Day with the remainder by mid 2021.
The Trump fan base applauded the agreement/ withdrawal of troops.
It appears the Biden Admin chose to honor the agreement made by the Trump Admin.
This is why you aren't hearing a peep out of the Trump zealots.
Biden followed through on Trump's promise and now they know they have nowhere to go with their criticism of Biden. He just did what Trump had already suggested.
My thoughts on it? It was a huge strategic mistake when Trump proposed it and that has not changed now, with Biden completing his wishes. We should have kept our base of operations there permanently. Not all that much different from the bases we have kept in Germany since WWII, except that this base was far more important.
While I disagree with George Bush on many things that he says, I agree with him on this about the withdrawal: "...I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad."
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