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Originally Posted by Stealhead
It is the other way round actually this war has cost us billions upon billions not to mention how many Americans have been killed or permanently injured.The whole thing has cost us much more and really for nothing as Bin Laden was in Pakistan and had likely been there since 2002.
We should have closed up shop in 2003 or 2004 when it was obvious that Bin Laden was no longer there.And the war in Iraq sure did not help as things where actually calming down in 2003/04 in Afghanistan then things picked up again and there is no doubt the crap happening in Iraq caused it.For example prior to 2006 the Taliban rarely used IEDs that they learned directly from how effective it was in Iraq.
It costs them less than $100.00 to make an IED it costs us several million dollars in material and manpower to deal with one IED.One of those MRAP vehicles cost anywhere from 1.5-4 million dollars.Then all the fuel all the cost in manpower.
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We use a 3 million dollar bomb to blow up a 10$ tent. The logic behind this stuff....
But for the Taliban to want peace talks?
If they truly want peace, they want this to end as much as we do.
You would think.
I think Iraq should've been better dealt with in 1991 instead of now. If we had gotten Saddam out of there in '91 I think things would have gone differently in 2002-05.