As of May 30, America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan passed a major milestone: 1,000 US troops killed and $1 trillion spent.
Obviously, 'fiscal' conservatives and feral 'baggers would have no problem with these wasted lives or the wasted money. Whilst they'd begrudge cities like Denver a few tax bucks to keep the street lights on, one trillion blown on war? Fine and dandy.
But there's a horrible truth conservatives fail to grasp: while seeking a monopoly on patriotism they, ironically, have handed al Qaeda victory in the 'War on Terror'. Bin Laden's stated aim on 9-11 was to provoke "The Great Satan" into a pointless and costly war. Says Marc McDonald at OpEd News:
Bin Laden ... saw first-hand how the Soviet Union met its demise. As bin Laden said in a 2004 statement, "We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat." It's clear that the main goal of the 9/11 attacks was to provoke the U.S. into a costly war in Afghanistan that would drain our treasury and ultimately weaken the main lever of America's global power and influence: the U.S. dollar. Unfortunately for America, after 9/11, Bush took bin Laden's bait.
Nearly a decade on, we have a sunken economy, we're a trillion in the hole and we're stuck in not one, but two pointless wars. So show me a conservative patriot, and I'll show you a dumbsh*t unwittingly working for the man. And that man is Osama bin Laden. But of course, I'd be the anti-American to them. Ain't life odd?
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Yup, the morons took it bait, line and sinker. Imagine what $1trillion could have accomplished!!!!! We could have become energy independent.
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