{According to a forensic accountant cited in the Washington Post, out of $106 billion worth of US Defense Department contracts given out, “about 40 percent of the money ended up in the pockets of insurgents, criminal syndicates or corrupt Afghan officials.” To boot, the investigator specified that “18 percent of the contract money went to the Taliban, Haqqani, other insurgent groups.”}

In other words. Each time a surge or change of soldiers went down the commanding officer came in with enough cash on hand for anyone of us in this group to retire on. That cash was handed out in whole or incrementally to the Taliban and other insurgent groups for information or collaboration within periodical time frames. Periodical because they knew at some point they would either betray these groups or the groups would betray them. This is a repeated cycle that has been going on since 1978. On top of that, weapons. We supply them with weapons also in 2 ways. When we are working with them we sometimes supply them with weapons, and when these groups overrun Afghan and police compounds they take weapons. When Afghans who were trained turn on us they take those weapons with them, and more if the circumstance allows it. Our government is literally killing our soldiers there the same way they did in Iraq. Only today it's a slow death with a lot less action that is merely a mental fuck for those still there wondering if or when their time might come. Whether they will be ambushed while stationed off camp observing the next bomb drop or doing a village raid.

What isn't being told is the number of private contractors also being killed. If I remember right it was 1 in 4 from Iraq and Afghanistan deaths are contractors. These poor people and their families get essentially no glorification at all. And sadly they are mostly there for the same reason as our soldiers. Because the US has a sad state of a social construct to provide jobs for a meaningful advancement of society in which our capitalist system must rely on warring to keep the inequality going. Sacrificial pawns are drawn into the fold of their delusional reality under deceitful spoken adventures most never find. What many find is death, mental illness, a maimed body, homelessness, if lucky, a career struggling among the middle class in a sea of inequality. Rarely reaching collage as proposed.

The USA constantly does the same thing.