Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Not Worth It: Pew Research

[Rasputin_Vol]

It's like you knew in 2019 that it was time to get Americans to start doubting support of nations overseas. Nations that might.. oh, I don't know. Find themselves invaded by Russia?

How is Ukraine's border our immediate need, but our own southern border is not?

 

[rekinhavoc]

Multi-Billion Dollar Afghan Fund at Risk of Being Stolen by Taliban, Watchdog Warns

More than a year since its creation, a U.S.-backed fund to support the Afghan people has not made a single disbursement and lacks safeguards to prevent the $3.5 billion investment from being stolen by the Taliban government, according to a government watchdog.

freebeacon.com

Apparently the Taliban thinks it was worth it. Rinse and repeat in Ukraine.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

 

[VolTull]

How is Ukraine's border our immediate need, but our own southern border is not?

The Russians have withdrawn from Tijuana. They are full go in Ukraine. HTH.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Multi-Billion Dollar Afghan Fund at Risk of Being Stolen by Taliban, Watchdog Warns

More than a year since its creation, a U.S.-backed fund to support the Afghan people has not made a single disbursement and lacks safeguards to prevent the $3.5 billion investment from being stolen by the Taliban government, according to a government watchdog.

freebeacon.com

Apparently the Taliban thinks it was worth it. Rinse and repeat in Ukraine.

What about the millions of dollars in suitcases that the former president escaped with before the Taliban took over in 2021? Or the billions of cash on pallets we left behind at that time?

The US and her allies steal and waste money = no big deal

Taliban does the same = bad

 

[KB5252]

How is Ukraine's border our immediate need, but our own southern border is not?

And one has nothing to do with the other

 

[LouderVol]

And one has nothing to do with the other

it is when one is being used to hold up the other....

especially when its the foreign policy that "must" come first before the domestic issue can be addressed.

 

[KB5252]

it is when one is being used to hold up the other....

especially when its the foreign policy that "must" come first before the domestic issue can be addressed.

That's a chicken egg scenario. The repubs are withholding and the Dems are withholding. Vicious circle and one has nothing to do with the other except our government playing with toxic politics as usual.