Just to give the reader an idea about the immense loss & waste!
One can only hope that many of the Afghan people living abroad in exile and still living in the country have learnt some positive things about liberal Western democracies. Time will tell! The Taliban may have a reckoning!
"First, our auditors reported that Afghanistan topped the list of 170 counties receiving U.S. foreign aid. In FY2018 (the latest year available), Afghanistan received $6 billion in direct foreign aid alone.
Total taxpayer cost likely topped $2 trillion since 2001 and there were 22,000 causalities and 2,400 fatalities of U.S. servicemen and women. "
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